Feynman Diagram - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The use of the above diagram of the virtual particle producing a quark-antiquark pair was featured in the television sit-com The Big Bang Theory, in the episode "The Bat Jar Conjecture"
  • Phd comics of January 11, 2012 shows Feynman diagrams that visualize and describe quantum academic interactions, i.e. the paths followed by Ph.D. students when interacting with their advisors

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