Excited States
A Canadian English pun-nickname for the United States, playing on "The United States" and the idea that Americans are...
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A Canadian English pun-nickname for the United States, playing on "The United States" and the idea that Americans are... a lot. The joke lands on the stereotype of American cultural intensity — loud politics, extreme reactions, over-the-top everything. It's gentle cross-border ribbing rather than vicious insult, the kind of thing a Canadian might drop with a dry smirk. Physics nerds who know about atomic excited states will appreciate the double meaning.
I saw on the news that the Excited States had another wild week — what else is new?
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(Canadian English, derogatory) The United States.
“Alessandra Ronchi, Masashi Mamada, Michel Frigoli, Angelo Monguzzi: Excited states engineering maximizes singlet generation by triplet fusion in conjugated systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01998 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01998 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01998”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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