theblackalchemist Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 a questionhow much quarks with their flavours please /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif are there in an electron and neutron ?TBA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 a questionhow much quarks with their flavours please /forums/images/smilies/banana_sign.gif are there in an electron and neutron ?TBAA quiz! And I’m the first one here! A neutron consists of 3 quarks, an Up and 2 Downs. Quarks are fundamental particles An electron is a fundamental particle. It contains no quarks, or other particles. I answered from memory – honest. For more info, the wikipedia article standard model is a good place to start. theblackalchemist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infamous Posted January 6, 2007 Report Share Posted January 6, 2007 A quiz! And I’m the first one here! A neutron consists of 3 quarks, an Up and 2 Downs. Quarks are fundamental particles An electron is a fundamental particle. It contains no quarks, or other particles.Quite true, an electron is in the lepton family and is just as fundamental as a quark. This could lead to the next question: What is a preon.....................? Preon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ..........................Infy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblackalchemist Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Thanks CraigD & infy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 There believe there are 6: Up, down, bottom, top, strange and charm. Dont ask where the names came from :phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblackalchemist Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 There believe there are 6: Up, down, bottom, top, strange and charm. Dont ask where the names came from :phones: where do they come from ? :lol::lol::lol::lol: i am serious any idea anyone where do they come from ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthepon Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Those are what are known as 'new age' names. I'd say that scientists were running out of greek alphabets to use for name assigning...:phones: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblackalchemist Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 well i am just guessing, could it be that the names are associated with the characterstic properties of each quark ?but again where do up down go ? the direction ???? :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthepon Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 Actually, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted January 7, 2007 Report Share Posted January 7, 2007 There believe there are 6: Up, down, bottom, top, strange and charm. Dont ask where the names came from :shrug: where do they come from ? :shrug::lol::shrug::lol: i am serious any idea anyone where do they come from ?Murray Gell-Mann, one of the originators of the quark model, came up with both the name “quark” (he took it from one of the many semi-nonsense words in Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”) and the 6 predicted particles. At some point, people started calling the Top and Bottom quarks “Truth and Beauty”, legend has it because they wanted to call an accelerator at Cornell used to generate B quarks “the Beauty Factory”, not “the Bottom Factory”. Legend then has it that, around 1977 when all the quarks had been observed but the T quark, people started joking “the quark model lacks Truth!”, and people started calling it “Top” again to make this lame joke go away. Another story is that Top and Bottom were preferred to Truth and Beauty because, they’re similar to Up and Down, making it easier to remember their position in the chart of quarks, though this story fails to explain why the S and C quarks are called Strange and Charm, rather than something easy to remember like “Low and High”. Since each quark’s name starts with a unique letter, it’s really not important what name is used, as long as it starts with the right letter. Anybody who know enough about them to care will know what you’re talking about. ronthepon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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