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extrapenguinWe've probably all heard about tops and bottoms, but why not expand this into the rest of the quark family so we have six options to play with? A character can be not only top or bottom, but also up, down, strange, or charm. (Some sources even call top and bottom truth and beauty, respectively!)
This also gives us the opportunity to describe OTPs as mesons and OT3s as baryons. (OT4s and OT5s are also attested in the form of tetraquarks and pentaquarks.) So, what sort of meson is your OTP? Or perhaps you have an OT3 that is in need of a baryonic description? Or perhaps your polyship needs to be matched to the exotic hadron that best describes it? For example, if you have an OTP with a down member and an antistrange member, that would be a kaon. And an OT3 with a charm, a strange, and a bottom would be a charmed bottom omega baryon. An OT4 of charm, anticharm, down, and antiup would be a Z(4430) tetraquark.
Describe the source of your fannish hardon as a hadron in the comments! :D
This also gives us the opportunity to describe OTPs as mesons and OT3s as baryons. (OT4s and OT5s are also attested in the form of tetraquarks and pentaquarks.) So, what sort of meson is your OTP? Or perhaps you have an OT3 that is in need of a baryonic description? Or perhaps your polyship needs to be matched to the exotic hadron that best describes it? For example, if you have an OTP with a down member and an antistrange member, that would be a kaon. And an OT3 with a charm, a strange, and a bottom would be a charmed bottom omega baryon. An OT4 of charm, anticharm, down, and antiup would be a Z(4430) tetraquark.
Describe the source of your fannish hardon as a hadron in the comments! :D
