Alpha is for...

[MarillionFan]

Alpha. Moonbase Alpha.

[DimPrawn]

Beta is for Stella Artois. Wife Beta.

[AtW]

[DimPrawn]

You know I wish purple hair would come back into fashion. It's so very charming and goes well with beech flooring.

[thunderlizard]

Gamma is for Gammer Gurton's Needle, an underperformed early Tudor comedy about (if Memory prevails), a guy whose trousers come apart and can't get them stitched back together because the village tailor has lost his needle.

Containing such profound lines as:

Sodenlye the neele Hodge found by the prickynge
And drew it out of his bottocke where he felt it stickynge

[OwlHoot]

Gamma is for Gammer Gurton's Needle, an underperformed early Tudor comedy

See:

R. A. Alpher, H. Bethe & G. Gamow, The origin of chemical elements, Phys. Rev. (2) 73 (1948), 803-804.

[thunderlizard]

Epsilon is for the Epsilon Minus Semi-Moron lift operator in Brave New World. I think he now works as an account manager for Accenture.

[DimPrawn]

Delta is for the Lancia Delta....

I had one of them many yrs back. A red one. Fantastic car that sadly went from showroom condition to having rust holes the size of dustbin lids in the space of a few years.

Superb car though.

[OwlHoot]

Epsilon is for the Epsilon Minus Semi-Moron lift operator in Brave New World. I think he now works as an account manager for Accenture.

Zeta is for the Riemann Zeta Function and, more interestingly, Catherine Zeta Jones.

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/...s,%20Catherine

As "fortune green" managed to find a better pic of CZJ, nips and all, I'll concentrate on the Zeta function. The Clay Institute [ http://www.claymath.org/millennium/ ] has a million dollar bounty on proving that every one of its non-trivial roots (i.e. other than negative integers) has a real part equal to 1/2, or in other words that the blue dot in the animation at http://www.math.ubc.ca/~pugh/RiemannZetaComplex/ (which on Windows needs Java Runtime) only ever passes through the origin when t is real ..

[wc2]

Epsilon is for the physically deformed.