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First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered

Posted by Soulskill on from the odo-is-going-to-be-busy dept.

ananyo writes "Physicists have resurrected a particle that may have existed in the first hot moments after the Big Bang. Arcanely called Zc(3900), it is the first confirmed particle made of four quarks, the building blocks of much of the Universe's matter (abstract one, abstract two). Until now, observed particles made of quarks have contained only three quarks (such as protons and neutrons) or two quarks (such as the pions and kaons found in cosmic rays)."

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  1. Yahoo! by musth · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always vowed to open a tall cool one on the day they found a four-quarker.

  2. The Gillette Co. says by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck everything, we're doing five quarks.

    1. Re:The Gillette Co. says by Teresita · · Score: 4, Funny

      Fuck everything, we're doing five quarks.

      And Gillette will get promptly their ass sued by Apple who has already patented the "look and feel" of particles comprised of more than three quarks.

  3. LOL .... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

    There ... are ... 4 ... quarks!

    And, kidding aside, anyone care to put a meaning for this into layman's terms? Is more quarks == more energetic?

    I'm afraid these particles have always been a little too abstract to grok what this means.

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  4. Re:Continues to confirm current theories by OakDragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    The physics is cool, but I'm just excited that someone on the Internet used comprise correctly!

    Naturally - they didn't want to comprise their principals!

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  5. 4.5 litres. Hic. by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Four quarks? That's a Galuon, isn't it?

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