Physics Tattoo Tuesday : Feynman diagram tattoo
October 21st, 2008 Posted in Tuesday Physics Tattoos
After I showed you the tattoos of bubble chamber tracks; you probably knew that Feynman Diagram tattoos were coming, right!
The Feynman diagrams are some of the most intuitive and fascinating constructs in physics. The above diagram shows electromagnetic force being mediated by a photon.
The tat belongs to Vince Sanchez and looks like he got it just a few months ago.
Stay tuned for another interesting Feynman Diagram tattoo coming up in about 4 weeks.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Shouldn’t the e+’s be going backwards in time, as they are anti-particles?
November 7th, 2008 at 12:31 am
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November 28th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I’ve never wanted a body modification of any sort, but if I had to choose … this is pretty badass.
December 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Siegfried Sheldrake is right, surely the antiparticles should have the arrows reversed
January 29th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Ha ive just googled this and am surprised to find this thread. This is my tattoo. Yeah I thought the e’s should be the other way round but i based it on the following diagram of a first order feynman diagram in its most simple form.
http://plus.maths.org/issue21/features/strings/feynman1.gif
Interesting fact is the wave has 8 peaks, and the arrow covers 5 of them representing the 8 notes in a scale and 5 sharps and flats in an octave in music.
Done by Heath at Something Wicked in Lincoln UK.
- Spencer