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And while Gell-Mann did not name them after himself, “three quarks for Muster Mark” is a delightful origin of that particle’s name.
by frutiger 4y ago
And while Gell-Mann did not name them after himself, “three quarks for Muster Mark” is a delightful origin of that particle’s name.
- wrycoder 4y agoWe started with up and down quarks, and then discovered the charmed and strange ones. It would have been appropriate, given the trend in quark naming, to call the next two gell and mann, but Feynman would have had a fit.
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