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New Subatomic Particle Discovered

Posted by michael on from the charmed-life dept.

Cyndi writes "A new subatomic particle has been discovered by researchers at Stanford. It seems to be "an unusual configuration of a charm quark and a strange anti-quark"."

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  1. Naked charm!?! by MarkusQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article, it sounds as if this particle would exhibit naked charm (and naked (anti-)strange as well I assume). This seems astounding to me (at a quarter to five AM at least). Last I heard that sort of thing was on mother nature's short list of no-nos.

    -- MarkusQ

  2. What the Quark? by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 4, Funny


    Could someone explain the who Anti-Quark, Naked Quark, Bio-Polar Quark, Spring Break Quark, and Got my head up my ass CIO Quark please?

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    1. Re:What the Quark? by reiggin · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Anti-Quark" can be vaguely defined as any Mac OS X user or any Adobe programmer.

  3. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ... does it run linux?

  4. Must be LOVE! by SillySlashdotName · · Score: 5, Funny

    a charm quark with ... an anti strange [quark]

    Love makes strange bedfellows...

    This force, unlike most others in nature, becomes stronger as the distance between the two quarks increases.

    Absence makes the heart grow fonder...

    They have discovered the LOVE particle!

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  5. Quark is so overrated... by jbarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer Neelix's portrayal of the Grand Proxy in "False Profits"!

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  6. Don't forget this one: by 0x00000dcc · · Score: 4, Funny
    Don't forget: the Bill O'Reilly quark, which, if combined with other quarks to make an electron, has no spin ...

    I kill me.

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