SHIP'S LOG:

Golden Stone

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Dirac Fermion 3/15/2021 7:26pm


Hey has anybody seen my antiparticle? And let me give you a hint it's not my sister Majorana. Anybody can tell she's her OWN antiparticle. She thinks everything is always about her. She's so high energy. AND maintenance.

It's ME who has to worry about my antiparticle showing up at any minute, poofing me out of existence.

It's why I stowed away here on the Golden Stone. My antiparticle would NEVER think of looking for me h-----






Majorana Fermion 1/31/2021 7:30pm


Ah that's the way, uh huh uh huh, I LIKE it @Leopold Gremlin. Uh huh uh huh. Smooth, golden, and homogenous. I love how it just slides right out on the plate like that. So soft and silky you can cut it with a fork, but with a beautiful golden boundary of topological superconductors on the outside. And it's all MINE! I don't want to share it with a soul, especially that nasty contrarian sister of mine, Dirac. Oh my god I can sense her here she comes--







Leopold Gremlin 12/22/2020 11:01pm


Ah, then why didn't you say so, @Majorana Fermion! Here's a golden oldie I just know you're gonna love...

The music has magic,
You know you can catch it;
If you let the songs take control...

The sound starts to glisten,
The more that you listen,
And slowly it turns into gold...

SOLID GOLD!! Filling up my life with music.
SOLID GOLD!! Putting rhythm in my soul.
There's a song that's unreeling,
To fit the way that I'm feeling;
My head keeps spinning to music,
Spinning to gold...

I've come to discover,
That music's a lover;
Its heat keeps me warm when I'm cold...

The beat starts to bend me,
The melodies send me,
And everything melts into gold...

SOLID GOLD!! Filling up my life with music.
SOLID GOLD!! Putting rhythm in my soul.
There's a song that's unreeling,
To fit the way that I'm feeling;
My head keeps spinning to music,
Spinning to gold...
There's a song that's unreeling,
To fit the way that I'm feeling;
My head keeps spinning to music,
Spinning to gold...SOLID GOLD!!

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(Famous Music -- Paramount)
International Copyright Secured - Made in the USA - All Rights Reserved






Majorana Fermion 11/1/2020 11:09pm


Well I appreciate the elemental enthusiasm, @Leopold Gremlin, but I guess I'm a little too "old school" for your golden shower of rock.

Don't you have something more... funky? Smooth? Less dramatic? More molten? I may have heavy metals in my blood, but I'm really more of an analog girl.






Leopold Gremlin 9/19/2020 11:58pm


On my ship, the Golden Stone,
wheeling through the stars.
Headed for the heart of an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hydra,
headlong into mystery
and heavy seed nuclei.

You say it's too hot--
and I say just somewhere around 6×10^9 and 8×10^9 K.
Heavy seed nuclei are THICK,
made from free neutrons
and gravity,
ejected from the re-expanded core of a core-collapse supernova.

Binary neutron star merger!
We surf the waves.
Spinning, whirling,
still descending,
like a spiral sea
unending.

Got no time to undergo
radioactive decay.
The neutron drip line drips
the heaviest of metals,
synthesizing isotopes
in a succession of
rapid
neutron
captures.

Heavy Gold












Leopold Gremlin 8/10/2020 11:19pm


Hey, it's me. DJ Leopold Gremlin, of Leopold and the Metalloids. I spin the cold golden wax that keeps things super cool on the Golden Stone. And by super cool I mean SUPER HEAVY!!!

You can hear the metal I spin in every hall and toilet stall on the Golden Stone, mining the heavy riffs. I create the metal bridge that rocks us all on this airship ride called Life.

Sure, I've played the Palladium, the Germanium†, and the Dysprosium. I've gone multi-platinum, been labeled pyrophoric, and frequently reach a +8 oxidation state. And though I may be criticized for my occasional volatility and extreme toxicity, it's all in service of just one thing.

HEAVY METAL!!!

Which is why I've got a special set I want to spin for @Majorana Fermion. And it goes a little something like this...






Limpy Featherweight 7/4/2020 10:49pm


Ah, the golden years. So many of our gold-owning passengers are in them! Or quickly slipping out of their silver years, or rapidly slipping into their iron and copper years. But we’ve got a cake for all of them! And with a golden glow.

That’s where I come in. I’m Limpy Featherweight, ship’s Frosting Master, Confectionary Division. I’m the one who works the gold leaf into the glaze, and makes the little flowers children like to eat.

For some I reserve my most special sprinkles—iron filings, platinum pilings, neutrino nonpareils, and anise antiparticles.

I am working on a quark cupcake now that will simply blow @Majorana Fermion‘s mind!






Doctor Smalls 5/20/2020 10:06pm


It's important that our passengers maintain their golden glow. People ask how I do it and I tell them "It's not magic, it's SCIENCE!" You've got to know how to keep all those protons, electrons, and neutrons in balance! There are lots of them, you know, in gold. Globs and globs of them. It's hard to keep them straight!

I keep an eye on common oxidation states, smoothing out the wrinkles where I can. But here's a little secret for our rolled gold listeners, it's not just temperature, it's the PRESSURE these clients are under that makes them crack!

Now to see to the atomic state of @Majorana Fermion, and see what really makes her tick.






Majorana Fermion 4/12/2020 5:21pm


I need transport and I need it quick! Spooky-action-at-a-distance quick!

I LOVE gold, so there's no other way in the world that I prefer to travel than the Golden Stone. Nobody keeps their gold so cold -- cold to keep those cracks from forming in my eternally beautiful skin--and I need it at nano-kelvin levels to maintain my youthful glow.

So I bought a ticket on the Golden Stone, to get me everywhere at once. Oh boy I just hope I don't run into my twin, Driac. If I run into her on this boat I just think I might EXPLODE!

Ah, all that GOLD. I'm relaxing now in my super-cooled cabin, waiting for it to go.






Fanny Goldthwait 3/6/2020 10:47pm


I'm @Mr. Northwind's biggest fan. The biggest fan on the Golden Stone!

Just let that blow over you.

WOOOOOSH!

That's right, I'm the ship's Central Fan, bigger than the one in IKEA, bigger than the one in your mamma's dam.

But I don't do no damage. I only blow a gentle breeze. Breeze enough to keep the cold air rolling through the ship.


From the touch of your lips,

your breath hangs in the air,

just like at 7-11.






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