people at cern have forgotten long ago: “Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.” – Theodore von Kármán Gell Mann

people at cern have forgotten long ago: “Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.” – Theodore von Kármán Gell Mann and Zweig among others proposed the imaginary concept of quarks (or partons, Feynman's Dolly) to do something about all those particles that kept popping up in accelerators. There was a time, when a particle was a run-of-the-mill cookie-cutter thesis.