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Wild Bunch: First five-quark particle turns up
Science News ^ | Week of July 5, 2003 | Peter Weiss

Posted on 07/06/2003 9:15:04 PM PDT by js1138

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1 posted on 07/06/2003 9:15:05 PM PDT by js1138
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Title should be:

Wild Bunch: First five-quark particle turns up
2 posted on 07/06/2003 9:17:20 PM PDT by js1138
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To: balrog666; RadioAstronomer; Right Wing Professor; js1138; Junior; Condorman; Doctor Stochastic; ...
ping
3 posted on 07/06/2003 9:31:12 PM PDT by js1138
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Way cool! Thanks for the ping. :-)
4 posted on 07/06/2003 9:34:36 PM PDT by RadioAstronomer
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**FYI**
5 posted on 07/06/2003 9:44:30 PM PDT by TwoStep (Ignorance can be cured, stupid is forever!)
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BTTT
6 posted on 07/06/2003 9:49:12 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (~~~ http://www.ourgangnet.net ~~~~~)
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To: js1138
Doesn't four quarks and one antiquark = 3 quarks?
7 posted on 07/06/2003 9:50:29 PM PDT by Consort
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And, of course, this all happened by chance after the Big Bang! Yeah!
8 posted on 07/06/2003 9:51:51 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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....this recent news is certainly met with excitement...



And I thought I needed a life.
9 posted on 07/06/2003 9:57:16 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: js1138
BTTT
10 posted on 07/06/2003 9:58:26 PM PDT by patricia
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To: LiteKeeper
And, of course, this all happened by chance after the Big Bang! Yeah!

Just what is chance? After all, even probability is governed by laws. Ever seen a fractal or a Mandelbrot set?

Seemingly impossible order out of sheer chaos. Funny how the Mandelbrot set appears EVERYWHERE in nature; in the shape of the mountains, or a tree, or a leaf . . .

11 posted on 07/06/2003 10:20:11 PM PDT by The Shootist
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To: js1138
Nice. Theory predicts something rather weird. Then experiment finds weird thing.
12 posted on 07/06/2003 10:26:30 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Consort
Doesn't four quarks and one antiquark = 3 quarks?

No, a particle and an antiparticle annihilate each other only if they're of the same type -- for example, an electron and a positron (anti-electron), but not a proton and a positron.

There are six kinds of quarks, called up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm. Each type has its own antiquark.

The five constituents of this newly discovered particle are said to be two up quarks, two down quarks, and a strange antiquark. There is no matching quark-antiquark pair here.

13 posted on 07/06/2003 10:29:51 PM PDT by Mitchell
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To: The Shootist
Ever see Fibonacci's Golden Number in creation?
14 posted on 07/06/2003 10:38:23 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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To: js1138; Physicist
OK, physicist, would you mind putting this in english for me, or is this as far as the translator goes?

Good find js1138, thanks for the ping!
15 posted on 07/06/2003 11:20:46 PM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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To: js1138
"Buffalo quark go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside."
16 posted on 07/06/2003 11:21:16 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (Soccer Mom's flee the Rats for Bush in his flight suit: I call this the Moisture Factor. MF high!)
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To: Consort
When can I get a antiquark drive for by vehicle?
17 posted on 07/06/2003 11:25:09 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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You know I think the Supreme Court is made of of 6 quarks and 3 antiquarks.
18 posted on 07/06/2003 11:26:35 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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the Jefferson lab has approved an experiment intended to boost its pentaquark production 20-fold

NO good can come from this, I'm telling you.

The ruination of mankind, famine, pestilence, degradation and death, all can be traced back to the Pentaquark.

Yada,yada,yada....
19 posted on 07/07/2003 3:29:06 AM PDT by tet68
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P L A C E M A R K E R
20 posted on 07/07/2003 3:54:54 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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