matticus
Guru
<whoosh>I wonder if it would help free the stranded boat in the Suez canal ?
(I don't see the link here, but thanks for tipping me off to a great news story!)
<whoosh>I wonder if it would help free the stranded boat in the Suez canal ?
I don't see the link here
Higgs bosun
I'm a fourth-rate chemist- not my problem.
I have one opinion about the quark and that is it rhymes with fark and not with fork.
No connection at all<whoosh>
(I don't see the link here, but thanks for tipping me off to a great news story!)
I thought it was an Irish duck swearing what the quarkA quark's decay halves with every doubling of distance from a posh duck.
Apparently Gell-Mann himself prefered it to be pronounced "kwork". However the line it comes from in Finnegan's Wake is "three quarks for Muster Mark" which to me suggests "kwark" makes more sense. G-M thought "quark" rhymed with "quart" as a weak pun on quarts of beer.
But everyone says "kwark" and no one apart from Gell-Mann has actually read Finegan's Wake