Both Uses
meson
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around in.†
Chpt 3 *
- The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood—and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(meson) physics: a subatomic particle consisting of a quark-antiquark pair
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)