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Posted by Willy Shmily Tiger (Member # 5647) on :

Fascinating reasearch, the real question is, have we found all the different flavors of them, or are there still some out there at higher energy levels we haven't yet discovered?

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*snort* Hobbes, did you just dobie your own thread? (what, you thought if you used an alternate nick we wouldn't notice?)

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

They will be discovering new particles until the end of time.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Possibly mph, but will those particles be quarks, or have we found all of those?

And yes I did, I was reading my own thread title and I misread it as 'Quarks' so I though "how perfect"... except I didn't want to dobie my own thread, so I comprimised and used a different sn. [Smile]

Hobbes

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
I thought "how perfect"... except I didn't want to dobie my own thread, so I compromised and used a different sn.

There is a certain peculiar logic to that. [Big Grin]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Quark Sing-a-long
Written by Lynda Williams
For Jefferson National Lab
Bring Our Daughters to Work Day.
(refrain)
Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top and Bottom!
The World is made up of Quarks and Leptons!
Up, Down, Charm, Strange,Top and Bottom!
Yum! Yum!

Quarks come in six flavors
They live in families of two.
Up Down, Charm Strange, Top and Bottom!
They come in anti-flavors too!

Each family makes a generation
between which is a mass gap.
The up quark is the lightest and the top quark
is the most fat!

The second and third generations
do not live for very long.
That's why everything in the Universe
is made up of Ups and Downs!

(refrain)

Quarks carry a color charge.
They come in red, green and blue.
You'll never see a quark all by itself
cuz they stick together with a strong force glue.

Quarks carry electric charge.
A fraction of electricity.
Quarks combine together so the total charge
is a multiple of unity!

An up, up down makes a proton for a total charge of plus one.
A down, up, down makes a DUD neutron!

Physics is so much YUM YUM PHUN!

(refrain)

copyright 1999 Lynda Williams

With pictures!

Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :

brill.

[Cool]

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I think I discovered one, but it is definately in the Strange category.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Just google "fourth generation quark".