Quarks – Quotes

The top quark was

The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it. Fabiola Gianotti

What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon, and the Charmed Quarks and the Coloured Quarks. But we can’t all be physicists. Doris Lessing

Where nature goes to

Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves. Deepak Chopra

Every atom in your

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time. David Eagleman

Newtonian physics runs into

Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there–in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger’s cat–things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll. Daniel H. Pink

String theory has the

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies – are reflections of one, grand physical principle, … Read more

Supersymmetry is a theory

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric ‘selectron,’ quarks ought to have ‘squark’ partners, and so on. Brian Greene

I saw the whole

I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and – in some mysterious way – significant.
R. J. Anderson