Re: quark quark quark

[David Hobby]

Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> Scientists at west suburban Fermilab have discovered an odd new 
> subatomic particle that's kind of like a triple-scoop ice cream cone.
> 
> 
> It consists of three smaller particles called quarks. Each quark has
>  a distinct property -- the chocolate, vanilla and strawberry
> flavors, if you will.

Save us from overly cute science writing!

Thanks for the post, Ronn, but this is about all there was to
the article:

> The cascade b consists of one down quark, one strange quark and one
> bottom quark. It's the only known particle that has a quark from each
> family.

---David

So I get the strange and bottom quarks, since they're lighter
than the charm and top quarks.  But why can't one have an up
quark instead of the down?

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quark quark quark

[Ronn! Blankenship]

Scientists at west suburban Fermilab have discovered an odd new 
subatomic particle that's kind of like a triple-scoop ice cream cone.

It consists of three smaller particles called quarks. Each quark has 
a distinct property -- the chocolate, vanilla and strawberry flavors, 
if you will.

The new particle, called a "cascade b," does not exist in ordinary 
matter. There were gobs of them just after the Big Bang, but they 
disappeared before the universe was one second old.

more . . .





-- Ronn!  :)



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Exposure To Cats Increases Asthmatic Symptoms In People Without Specific Cat Allergy

[Ronn! Blankenship]

Suggesting that the noise Midnight makes whenever I sneeze is his 
version of an evil snicker:




-- Ronn!  :)



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Re: Not a rocket scientist . . .

[Robert Seeberger]

On 7/6/2007 8:59:00 PM, Ronn! Blankenship 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Mildly NSFW . . .
>
> 
>

No.not a rocket scientist.
But he did do a very short stint as a fire man.


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Moon Rocket Maru
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Not a rocket scientist . . .

[Ronn! Blankenship]

Mildly NSFW . . .




-- Ronn!  :)



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One in five

[William T Goodall]

http://tinyurl.com/23xxy4

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=
1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070


[...]

Dr. Miller, 63, a political scientist who directs the Center for  
Biomedical Communications at the medical school, studies how much  
Americans know about science and what they think about it. His  
findings are not encouraging.

While scientific literacy has doubled over the past two decades, only  
20 to 25 percent of Americans are "scientifically savvy and alert,"  
he said in an interview. Most of the rest "don't have a clue." At a  
time when science permeates debates on everything from global warming  
to stem cell research, he said, people's inability to understand  
basic scientific concepts undermines their ability to take part in  
the democratic process.

[...]

Dr. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic knowledge.  
American adults in general do not understand what molecules are  
(other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can  
identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what  
radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves  
around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.


-- 
William T Goodall
Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web  : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/

"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating  
system, and possibly program, of all time." - Bill Gates, 1987


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