On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> wrote:
The quark descriptions having +2/3e or -1/3 e charge seems contrived. Note that the quark description is intimately bound up with the so-called "resonances," some of which are baryons consisting of different combinations of the six quarks: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yfxbzzN0SHo/UQWN97WS5GI/AAAAAAAAAtI/0kRzu2l4unc/s1600/Baryon-decuplet-small.png Each position in this triangle corresponds to a short-lived baryon with a different mass, some of which have shown up in particle accelerator experiments. Eric