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It was at my house eating chicken and dumplings last weekend.
Everyone definitely ended up more massive, so we're sure it was Higgs.
So9
A yet-to-be-discovered particle that I shall dub RosieOdonnelium.
There's no Top Quark really. Quarks belong to an autonomous hadronic commune.
Points, lines, angles, surfaces, and completing curves....causal units, portal units, form units, and structure units....aerogen, pyrogen, geogen, and fluogen....on-ness, in-ness, through-ness, and presence....and other stuff, including fuddle.
Hmmm. I'm a bit confused by this journalist's description of the Fermilab collisions. The article says that "When the accelerator smashes a quark and an anti-quark together, a top quark and an anti-top quark are occasionally created..." It was my understanding that free-standing quarks could not be created or observed; the amount of energy necessary to drag a quark out of another particle (due to the Strong force) would be enough to create another quark, so efforts to "liberate" quarks simply result in another composite particle. Did I miss something major, and do they actually have a collider that will accelerate and smash quarks? This has got to be journalist error...