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who ordered that?

• frutiger 4y ago
  This is a reference to the famous quip by Rabi: > The eventual recognition of the muon as a simple "heavy electron", with no role at all in the nuclear interaction, seemed so incongruous and surprising at the time, that Nobel laureate I. I. Rabi famously quipped, "Who ordered that?" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon
  • high_byte 4y ago
    I love this.
  • ncmncm 4y ago
    Which is itself a reference to eating at a Chinese restaurant, and a dish is brought to the Lazy Susan nobody recognizes.
• dkural 4y ago
  The Standard Model did, in the 50s.