In both cases, the top quark is short-lived and decays, for example, into a bottom quark, a lepton (such as a muon) and a neutrino. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
He is perhaps best known for borrowing the word quark from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ( "Three quarks for Muster Mark") and giving it a radically new meaning. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
Had Gell-Mann been a Lewis Carroll enthusiast, he might have named his hypothetical particles snarks; but instead he borrowed the word quark from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
The result is a new state of matter known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP). From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
You know the elementary particle called the quark; well, that's a Eurish word. From Wordnik.com. [Spock Must Die]
quarks and gluons then form a kind of thick soup that we call the quark-gluon plasma. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
This quark was a missing link in the systematics of the elementary particles and Burton and. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000] Reference
In the state known as quark-gluon plasma, they are freed of their attraction to one another. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
There is six kind of quark, that is quark up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), beauty (b) and top. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
This sticky, gloopy substance, known as a quark-gluon plasma, behaved like a hot liquid, according to their results. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Resulting in a hot dense soup of quarks and gluons known as quark-gluon plasma. From Wordnik.com. [FOXNews.com] Reference
Unless you were 'quark' or 'photon', which I guess could be possible if I deconstructed the work a bit. From Wordnik.com. ["The real problem with literary types is..."] Reference
Also, there's a nice resonance with "quark" that points us in the direction of "low-level particle," I reckon. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk] Reference
Examine the 'quark' partícules There is nowhere further to go. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
He called this particle the "quark", from a passage in James Joyce's. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
It tells you the likelihood for one kind of quark to turn into another kind of quark. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
To cook they use "tejföl" (fresh cheese such as "quark" which intensifies the flavours). From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
After analyzing the data, the Large Hadron Collider has revealed that "quark" is kind of a funny name. From Wordnik.com. [Something Awful] Reference
The lightest is the up quark, which is. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A cello worked hard to be superglue of the quark variety. From Wordnik.com. [Though the Heart be Still as Loving] Reference
Hall and colleagues predict a top quark weighing 170 to 190-so their mass theory is alive. From Wordnik.com. [How Is A Quark Like A Frisbee?] Reference
It decays, nearly instantly, into the heaviest quark-antiquark or lepton-antilepton pair it can. From Wordnik.com. [Bump Hunting (Part 1)] Reference
Our Hudson Valley farm neighbors - Hawthorne Valley Farm - provided their signature quark cheese. From Wordnik.com. [Liz Neumark: From Grassroots to Mountaintops] Reference
If the Higgs in a technicolor like theory is composed of something it might be a top-quark condensate. From Wordnik.com. [Does Space Expand?] Reference
Never in our wildest dreams do we assume even a quark of morality exists in these subhuman psychopaths. From Wordnik.com. [Bottom line, what have we learned during these last eight years?] Reference
An article in Physics Today (Sept. 1995, p. 24) states that “quark spins appear to account for 20-30%”. From Wordnik.com. [Electricity will soon be supplied by magnetic energy conversion systems.] Reference
For the Higgs masses we seek, this would be either a b and an anti-b quark, or a tau and an antitau lepton. From Wordnik.com. [Bump Hunting (Part 1)] Reference
The fowls were scuffling and crawking, the ducks were quark-quarking, the pony had stamped wildly to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
So the formation and disintegration of a fireball in quark gluon plasma can be interpreted in black hole language. From Wordnik.com. [the atomic uni-verse] Reference
Erik Jacobs for The Wall Street Journal Veal sweetbreads are served with whole-wheat waffle and citrus quark at L'Espalier. From Wordnik.com. [Boston Goes Way Beyond Cod] Reference
Large philosophers often lack the concept of being a quark; that is to say, they have no grasp of the property being a quark. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Every kind of stuff in our everyday world is composed of only three kinds of particles - two varieties of quark and one of electron. From Wordnik.com. [What's The Matter?] Reference
Further collisions should confirm the existence of the last quark, as well as pinpoint its incredible mass-as much as an entire gold atom. From Wordnik.com. [How Many Scientists Does It Take To Screw In A Quark?] Reference
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