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...even in the stained glass windows of ancient cathedrals. Yet in more than a decade of searching, physicists have been unable to find quarks, the elusive particles that many believe to be the basic building blocks of matter (TIME, May 19, 1967). Indeed, even Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann, of Caltech, who hypothesized quarks in 1962, had doubts that their existence could ever really be confirmed...
...attempt to bring some order to the unruly world of hadrons, Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, proposed the quark theory. All hadrons, said Gell-Mann in 1963, can be composed of two or three quarks or their anti-particles. Quarks come in three "flavors"--up, down and sideways. Down quarks ('d') have an electric charge of -1/3, up quarks ('u') have charge + 2/3. And then there are sideways quarks ('s'). Sideways quarks are used to make "strange" particles, the ones with the long lifetimes, and are said to have "strangeness" 1. All other...
...Gell-Mann's theory, modified so that each quark also comes in three different "colors" (no kidding), proved tremendouly successful. One could then describe every hadron by some quark combination, and every quark combination by an observed hadron. (A proton, for instance, is the combination 'uud.' The neutral K-meson, which has strangeness *1, is the combination...
Then the Radcliffe passing game began to gell, as the taller hoopsters pressed their advantage. Led by the adept playmaking of Caren Curry and Wendy Carle, the Crimson narrowed the scoring gap until with less than ten minutes left in the half, sophomore forward Hildy Meyers tied the score...
...Murray Gell-Mann develops the "eightfold way" to explain the relationships between subatomic particles...