Gell-Mann was looking for a common denomenator to the atomic zoo -- a common denominator of characteristics.
He found some (3) and didn't know what they really
were so he called them Quarks.
Later he found more, so he had 6.
Now each quark can have three varieties of colors:
"red", "blue" and "yellow".
Quark theory is not completed.
So, maybe somebody will find sexual quark in the future?
2006-08-16 09:08:30 · 8 answers · asked by socratus 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Actually...anything is *possible* in the realm of high-energy, subatomic physics, but...
Finding new quarks in the future isn't so likely. Why?
If I recall my research on the subject correctly, we already have three rough tiers of quarks as it is: the mundane one where the "subatomic particles" are the electron, proton, and neutron, the next one up, with the charm/strange ones, and then the last one with the top/bottom....
And with those tiers, the difference in energy and mass that you have to pump into those subatomic particles to get them to show up *at all* jumps by a factor of a few million *per tier* at least.
Meaning you *could*, for instance, have a top quark show up in nature, but it would be a basic, "subatomic" particle the size of a *Silver Atom* in terms of mass....
So yeah, I don't doubt that other quarks might well be out there, but do we have enough *energy* to make them show up without literally making another Big Bang?
I dunno. I'm having some trouble finding my science magazines right now, my couch is one big mess lately....
2006-08-16 10:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Naming of the particles is done with a little tongue-in-cheekiness but physicists. Truth, Beauty, and Charm could have been called Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll and it would not make us understand quarks any better or worse. I tend to be curious about the SHAPE of quarks. And we may find them to be shapeless, or maybe little tiny interlocking rings of superstring material, or perhaps something we simply can not imagine. Fun, no?
2006-08-16 16:38:07 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are the one to discover a new quark you get to name it. For example the "strange quark" has "strangeness" associated with it. So if you, or me because I am stealing your idea, discover a new quark then it would be called the sexy quark (sounds better than the sexual quark) with the property of sexyness.
Quark names are arbetrary
2006-08-16 16:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by satanorsanta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would mean you wanted the smallest amount of sex possible in the whole of creation and the known universe.
Which makes you the saddest person ever to have lived.
I am so sorry for you.
2006-08-16 18:00:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible Physics is not dull it has a sense of HUmour?
2006-08-16 17:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cant believe no one responds to this. What is the world coming to?
2006-08-16 16:14:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can name anything what you want it is arbitary it doesnt make it so
2006-08-20 08:53:35 · answer #7 · answered by mini prophet of fubar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea...well....no.
2006-08-16 16:14:59 · answer #8 · answered by SST 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋