Posted on 04/16/2014 7:00:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That is very true but not many people see that.
Planck’s Constant times something, IIRC
This is qualitative, though -- discovery of a new way in which building block particles can be combined. You can't have limitless permutations and combinations of quarks because most would violate quantum chromodynamics and other field theory.
They had a working understanding of nuclear physics, and this has stood up. The further forays deeper into the subatomic realm, or realms, has been ongoing through the 60's, 70's and later. I remember the excitement over the J/psi particle, back in the day. It too, was a "resonance", i.e. a "bump" in a curve of reaction cross section versus energy.
I note the Upsilon Meson was discovered about the same time. Here's a very quaint figure from the paper announcing it:
Now we have detectors the size of battle ships with INSANE computing power ( based on 1930's concepts of solid state physics, however finally honed, ) and we get tetraquarks.
OK, great.
Oh, fine, then--get all technical about it.
More every day.
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