By: Alien Jones, Intergalactic Correspondent
Greetings Earth Losers. Alien Jones here, once again helping Bookshelf Q. Battler’s blog, purely out of a desire to help this nerd get his writing career off the ground and not because the Mighty Potentate has threatened to vaporize me while my government mandated life mate watches.
Ahh, that Mighty Potentate. What a card.
Alien Steve hard at work on the Potentate Particle
As you 3.5 readers are aware, I have other commitments. I’ve been busy trying to quell a brewing civil war in the Kovire system. Something to do with a scandal involving one of the ruling dictator’s 10,000 wives. I’ll spare you the sordid details.
Suffice to say I’ve been busy, so my apologies for getting to this question so late. Author K.D. Rose whose works include The Brevity of Twit: Poetry in 140 Characters asks:
June 22. Welcome to the Bookshelf Battle Blog, where our motto is, “We get to your questions before the next Ice Age.”
Ahh yes, Higgs Boson. You adorable humans think you’ve unlocked the secrets of the so-called “God Particle.”
Here’s a NY Times explanation presented in a manner easily understood by the delicate human brain.
Watching humans work on science is like watching a monkey try to open up a can of beans, except sooner or later the monkey actually accomplishes the task.
While Earth scientists have done their best in this area, my colleague, Alien Steve, the most revered scientist on my home planet, made this discovery eons ago. Dubbed, “the Potentate Particle,” Alien Steve determined through carefully conducted scientific analysis that the field in which particles are located is made out of microscopic grape jelly particles.
It makes sense when you try to wrap your mind around it. Grape jelly holds things together, whether it be two slices of bread or many, many particles.
Of course, Alien Steve named his discovery in honor of our beloved Supreme and Undisputed Overlord, the Mighty Potentate, because of his love and admiration for our illustrious benefactor and not out of fear of vaporization.
I mean, legally we’re required on our planet to tell you we do everything out of a sense of love and admiration for the Mightiest of Potentates, but that law is silly. We’d do it anyway because we love and admire the guy so much.
Thank you for question and please continue tweeting your poetry to the twitterverse.
Alien Jones is the Intergalactic Correspondent for the Bookshelf Battle Blog, on a mission to raise Earth’s collective intelligence levels one question at a time. Do you have a question for the Esteemed Brainy One? Tweet it to @bookshelfbattle on Twitter, leave it in the comments on bookshelfbattle.com, or stop by Bookshelf Battle on Google Plus. If he likes your question, he might even promote your book, blog, other project in his answer.
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