why the fuck did someone give something as cool as quarks, such

This is how I feel about ANALysis. Retarded joke aside the name doesn't reflect how advanced it can get.

>>8924531
i say this about supersymmetry particles, squarks, sparticles? what the fuck?

yeah

I think a better question is who came up with the retarded names for the flavors?

>>8924531
what would you name them?

>>8924547
>There are six types of quarks, known as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom.

i swear to god, some of these monkeys that sleep in their labs just begun to lose all touch with humanity.

>>8924549
probably something in latin that means building block or foundation or something along those lines. maybe something that means beginning.

>>8924531
Yeah!

>>8924547
>>8924555
I don't understand why we even need all those flavors, or other high-energy versions of the standard particles at all. Why not call them Gen 2 electrons or Gen 3 up-quarks.

>>8924555
>>8924549
alpha particles would have been a good name for them if it wasn't already taken.

I think scientists have given up on naming shit.It used to be that you could give things cool Greek or Latin names, but now that nobody is trained in those languages, people have no idea how to name things. They just make up words that sound dumb as sand.

>>8924531
Because Gell-Man is a pretentious ass. iirc it comes from a line in Finnegans wake "3 quarks for muster mark". Also
>QCD
>Cool

>>8924574
>For some time, Gell-Mann was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word quark in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake:

>three quarks for Muster Mark!
>Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
>And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

holy fuck that is awful.

>>8924547
top and bottom were originally called truth and beauty, if that helps

>>8924572
Bullshit. Every new particle gets a faux Greek -on suffix.

>>8924587
I will concede that they get the -on, but you have to admit that 'chameleon' is a dumb name in spite of the suffix.

>>8924581
someone pls interpret the original for me. What does it mean

>>8924547
>up - self explanatory in context
>down - self explanatory in context
>strange - discovered by a physicist
>charm - discovered by a gay physicist
>top - discovered by a manly engineer
>bottom - discovered by a feminized engineer

>>8924555
That's already what atom means

>>8924632
Atom means 'indivisible'.

>>8924639
Your mom also said she was indivisible but look at what I did to her last night with my cock

>>8924651
What exactly did you do? Go into detail please.

>>8924531
Are they on a spectrum?

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>>8924630
Kek

>>8924531
because they really liked james joyce

>>8924555
You don't sleep in your lab? What is wrong with you?

>>8924660
We had a polite conversation over tea and biscuits

>>8924574
Finnegans Wake is my favorite book.

>>8924718
no i try to maintain a shred of a humanity. I enjoy being a people and not an autistic robot.

>>8924540
dumb name for a dumb idea

>>8924574
if you discover something you can name it whatever you want

also gellman > feynman