Re: an aside : how quarks got their names (fwd)

Subject: Re: an aside : how quarks got their names (fwd)
From: Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- TECHCENTER -dot- PACCAR -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:21:16 -0800

This 'names of quarks' thread ignores the word 'quark' itself, which is the
term for a type of German cheese. The quark was named, however, was named by
Murray Gell-Mann, based on a line from Joyce's _Finnegan's Wake_: "Three
quarks for Muster Mark!" (Gell-Mann found this line fitting because,
contrary to the history given here, there were originally three quarks, not
two.)

AHD says Joyce's 'quark' comes from 'the standard English verb _quark_,
meaning "to caw, croak"', yet no such verb is listed in AHD.



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