All 3 Uses
quark
in
Flora & Ulysses
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- Quarks, dwarf stars, black holes, and the like.
p. 149.7 *quarks = basic building blocks of matter that makes up protons and neutrons
- Sunny—side up
Pascal
Giant squid
little shepherdess
Vanquished
Capacious
Quark
Universe (expanding)
Blundermeecen
Banished†p. 165.7quark = a basic building block of matter that makes up protons and neutrons - Words for Flora
Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
all of it—
sprinkles, quarks, giant
donuts, eggs sunny—side up—
you
are the ever—expanding
universe
to me.†p. 233.6quarks = basic building blocks of matter that makes up protons and neutrons
Definitions:
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(1)
(quark as in: up and down quarks) physics: a basic building block of matter that makes up protons and neutronsFundamental particles proposed in 1964 by physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Six types exist, and they combine to form protons and neutrons—the building blocks of atomic nuclei. Quarks are never found in isolation and are held together by the strong nuclear force, one of nature's four fundamental forces.
Gell-Mann borrowed the name from James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake, which contains the line "Three quarks for Muster Mark." The number three was fitting—three quarks combine to form each proton or neutron. Joyce's playful, nonsensical language appealed to Gell-Mann for naming particles with such strange behavior, and fittingly, one type of quark is actually called "strange." - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)