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Fun fact, the reason strange quarks are named strange is because when we discovered the first hadrons containing those quarks, they were strangely long-lived.
by kmm 5y ago
Fun fact, the reason strange quarks are named strange is because when we discovered the first hadrons containing those quarks, they were strangely long-lived.
Long-lived here meaning 10^-10 seconds, instead of 10^-20 seconds. A whole tenth of a nanosecond!
- ansible 5y agoThat is actually quite a long time at the quantum scale.