15 June 2007

"Three quarks for Muster Mark"

What do you get when you mix an up, a down and a strange?

According the folks at the US Department of Energy you get a "cascade b" with a mass of 5.774±0.019 GeV/c2. This is really small unless you work down where these scientists do in which case it is really big.

I must confess I find atomic and sub-atomic physics fascinating even if I rarely understand what is really being talked about. I certainly don't understand the maths.

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