Comments on: pentaquark

pentaquark

stbalbach — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:10:20 -0800

Physicists have discovered a new class of subatomic particle that will provide unexpected insights into the fundamental building blocks of matter. The new particle is the so-called pentaquark - five quarks in formation.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:03:35 -0800

I think I saw these guys at an air show, once. They were pretty cool!

By: MzB

MzB — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:42:11 -0800

was that 15 billion years ago? Now they believe they know of a particle containing five quarks that perhaps could have been common in the very early universe. more details from NYT (yeah, that's a blair-reviewed scientific journal) ok, here (arxiv) is the original paper.

By: sfenders

sfenders — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:43:04 -0800

2-, 3-, and 5-quark particles. Even at the subatomic level, the law of fives holds true.

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:46:18 -0800

That's because it is a transcendental condition of apperception.

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 01 Jul 2003 21:53:46 -0800

That's also why Discordianism is a joke/satire religion, at least to those who get it. A Discordian high priest once declared that from now on celebrities will die in threes and its been true ever since.

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 02:50:21 -0800

...celebrities will die in threes and its been true ever since. Hepburn, Hackett and Who? (This may be a MeFi record for thread derail... from fundamental matter to celebrity dead pool in five comments... I'm proud to be contributing...) BTW, I thought this was all revealed back in the '70s in "The Pentaquark Papers"...

By: Cerebus

Cerebus — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:31:02 -0800

Hepburn, Hackett and Who? Take your pick-- Strom Thurmond or Robert McCloskey.

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:53:08 -0800

Hepburn, Hackett and Who? Bob Hope is getting worried.

By: wobh

wobh — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:19:34 -0800

Nothing against the discordians but I predict a discovery of an eight quark configuration based on a different property of addition.

By: goethean

goethean — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:14:39 -0800

*appreciates crunchburger's Kant joke*

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 20:17:25 -0800

I predict a discovery of an eight quark configuration Octoquarks would likely be found in great profusion around Discworld, where it likely forms masses of Octogen and Octiron. Ponder Stibbons, of the Unseen University's High Energy Magic Lab, is probably looking into it, but probably won't talk about it until he can find a way to avoid saying, "eight."

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:01:21 -0800

*sets clock*