sub

Short form of the word subconscious. Often used in a similar way to "demons" as often found in rap songs

Damn my sub be telling me to pop all these percs rigth the f*** now!

by monsieur_worldwide March 20, 2024

sub only chat

Sometimes, things get a little crazy in chat.

“I was gonna watch ranboo but I heard he doesnt use sub only chat…”

by cluaireo June 29, 2021

sub

Short for "Submissive." The submissive person in a BDSM relationship or encounter. Typically used by furries.

I'm really more of a sub, myself, but I could learn some dom skills.

by A-LexRBLX July 4, 2021

Sub-Atomic Engineering

The art of building things not from atoms, but from the particles that constitute them: electrons, protons, neutrons, and eventually quarks and gluons. This is manufacturing and manipulation at the femtometer scale. Imagine crafting materials where protons are arranged in non-atomic lattices, creating "electron crystals" where the wavefunctions are sculpted into specific shapes, or designing forces by arranging gluon fields. The properties of such constructs would be alien, governed by quantum chromodynamics and electroweak theory rather than traditional chemistry.

Example: "The alien artifact's core was a lattice of pure protons, held in perfect crystalline formation by sub-atomic engineering. It didn't exist as matter as we know it; it was a soup of strong force bonds singing a single, stable note of pure mass."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Sub-Nuclear Engineering

Going deeper into the heart of matter than anyone should: engineering with quarks, gluons, leptons, and bosons. This is the manipulation of the fundamental quantum fields themselves. The goal might be to create stable "strange matter" (made of up, down, and strange quarks), generate focused beams of gluons for "strong force welding," or stabilize the Higgs field in a local area to give particles variable mass. It's the engineering of the universe's source code, long before it compiles into recognizable atoms.

Example: "Their weapon wasn't a laser; it was a sub-nuclear engineering projector. It fired a coherent beam of disentangled gluons that briefly severed the strong nuclear force in its path, causing any matter it touched to explosively disintegrate into a cloud of free quarks."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Sub-Atomic Harnessing

Utilizing the unique properties of individual sub-atomic particles for technology, rather than for building new structures. This includes electron spin for spintronics, neutrino interactions for ghost-like communication through planets, muon catalysis to enable cold fusion, or harnessing the magnetic moment of protons for ultra-precise imaging. It’s about treating particles like specialized tools with specific quantum properties that can be exploited for sensing, computation, or energy transfer where bulk atomic properties are too clumsy.

Example: "The planet-scanner uses sub-atomic harnessing. It fires a beam of neutrinos through the crust and detects the faint shadows cast by different materials on a muon detector array. It's like an X-ray, but for an entire planetary hemisphere at once."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Sub-Nuclear Harnessing

Extracting energy or applying force via the violent, confining interactions inside the nucleus, specifically the realm of quarks and gluons governed by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This could involve tapping the energy released in quark rearrangements, harnessing the Casimir-like effect of the vacuum within nucleons, or using the color charge of quarks for a form of energy storage or transmission unimaginable in electromagnetism. It's power from the furnace where mass itself is forged.

Example: "The theoretical 'QCD Battery' works on sub-nuclear harnessing. It stores energy by putting quarks inside nucleons into excited, high-energy color states. Releasing that energy gives you a flash of pure strong force, capable of vaporizing mountains, all from a battery the size of a grape."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026