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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Strangelets: "Bullet Quarks"
Jesus fuckballs:
The scientists looked for events producing two sharp signals, one as it entered Earth, the other as it emerged again. They found two such events, both in 1993. The first was on the morning of October 22. Seismometers in Turkey and Bolivia recorded a violent event in Antarctica that packed the punch of several thousand tons of TNT. The disturbance then ripped through Earth on a route that ended with it exiting through the floor of the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka just 26 seconds later - implying a speed of 900,000 mph.
That "disturbance" would be a pollen-sized quark with a weight of many, many tons; so heavy, in fact, that it barely slowed down as it literally ripped through the earth, entering via Antarctica and exiting via Sri Lanka.
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What the fuck is a quark, and why should I care, anyway?
Quark. What a stupid word.
Quark. What a stupid word.
# posted by 
: 6:17 PM
: 6:17 PM
Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. (The others are leptons.) Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks and antiquarks are the only particles which interact through all four of the fundamental forces in the universe.
The single most important property of quarks is called confinement. This is the experimental fact that individual quarks are not seen — they are always confined inside hadrons, subatomic particles like protons, neutrons and mesons. This fundamental property is expected to follow from the modern theory of strong interactions, called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Although there is no mathematical derivation of confinement in QCD, it is easy to show using lattice gauge theory.
from Wikipedia
Oh, now I get it.
Oh, and I only drink cranberry juice when I have a yeast infection.
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The single most important property of quarks is called confinement. This is the experimental fact that individual quarks are not seen — they are always confined inside hadrons, subatomic particles like protons, neutrons and mesons. This fundamental property is expected to follow from the modern theory of strong interactions, called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Although there is no mathematical derivation of confinement in QCD, it is easy to show using lattice gauge theory.
from Wikipedia
Oh, now I get it.
Oh, and I only drink cranberry juice when I have a yeast infection.
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