Comment by DonHopkins

Electrons are bits: Minimal structure, maximal fungibility.

Protons are WASM modules: Portable, sandboxed, rich internals, stable interface.

Neutrons are headless WASM: Same runtime, no external API, harder to drive or inspect.

Nuclei are Kubernetes: Orchestration, emergent behavior, scheduling, binding energy as overhead.

QCD is the runtime: One spec, wildly different behavior depending on scale.

Experiments are profilers: You never see the code, only traces, distributions, hotspots.

HN comments are undefined behavior and non-renormalizable noise: Unconstrained interactions, long-range correlations, destroyed predictability.