This new quark they've found

[matticus]

I wonder if it would help free the stranded boat in the Suez canal ?

<whoosh>

(I don't see the link here, but thanks for tipping me off to a great news story!)

 

[newfhouse]

I don't see the link here

Higgs bosun

 

[matticus]

<groan>

 

[winjim]

View: https://youtu.be/KYeroGkPULI

 

[Profpointy]

I'm a fourth-rate chemist- not my problem.

I have one opinion about the quark and that is it rhymes with fark and not with fork.

Apparently Gell-Mann himself prefered it to be pronounced "kwork". However the line it comes from in Finnegan's Wake is "three quarks for Muster Mark" which to me suggests "kwark" makes more sense. G-M thought "quark" rhymed with "quart" as a weak pun on quarts of beer.

But everyone says "kwark" and no one apart from Gell-Mann has actually read Finegan's Wake

 

[biggs682]

<whoosh>

(I don't see the link here, but thanks for tipping me off to a great news story!)

No connection at all

 

[Chromatic]

A good excuse to post this from my favourite Hawkwind album.

 

[cyberknight]

A quark's decay halves with every doubling of distance from a posh duck.

I thought it was an Irish duck swearing what the quark

 

[palinurus]

Apparently Gell-Mann himself prefered it to be pronounced "kwork". However the line it comes from in Finnegan's Wake is "three quarks for Muster Mark" which to me suggests "kwark" makes more sense. G-M thought "quark" rhymed with "quart" as a weak pun on quarts of beer.

But everyone says "kwark" and no one apart from Gell-Mann has actually read Finegan's Wake

I use the argument from Finnegan's wake too- it's Muster Mark, not Muster Mork!