meatonion
Meatonion is a term used in speculative physics and science fiction to denote a hypothetical subatomic particle or bound state. In common sketches, a meatonion is imagined as a composite particle formed by a meson bound to a heavier fermionic partner, yielding a state that can be neutral or weakly charged and that exhibits properties distinct from ordinary mesons or baryons.
In theoretical models, meatonions are often assigned masses ranging from several hundred MeV to a few GeV.
To date, there is no experimental evidence for meatonions. They are designed as hypothetical constructs, and
In fiction and theoretical exercises, meatonions serve as devices to probe questions about matter stability, exotic
See also: meson, exotic hadron, pentaquark, dark matter candidates.