Word: manne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need for this key building block of the universe became so great that in 1962 Physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig, working independently, devised and described hypothetical particles that would meet all of the necessary requirements. Gell-Mann insisted that his particle, which he called the quark,*was simply a theoretical tool useful in describing the nature of subatomic particles; it did not necessarily have to exist. But ever since, physicists have been searching in vain for a real quark. Now two British scientists, writing in Nature, have suggested that the search for the quark be conducted...
Mass into Energy. Gell-Mann's quark is an unusual creature indeed. Unlike other known particles, which are electrically neutral or have positive or negative charges that are whole multiples of the basic charge of the electron, quarks would have a charge of either one-third or two-thirds of the unit electron charge. Arranged in different combinations, quarks would form practically any one of the confusing variety of subatomic particles...
...Gell-Mann's theory, would consist of three quarks. Then why does it contain only a fraction of the mass of the quarks? The answer, physicists believe, is that most of the mass of the three quarks in a proton is relativistically converted into the tremendous energy that binds them together...
...name that Gell-Mann borrowed from a line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: "-Three quarks for Muster Mark...
...year anyway. It hardly holds a candle to 1924, for example. That's when insecticide was introduced; Juan Gris lectured at the Sorbonne; Bloch wrote his piano quintet; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Puccini, Turandot; Schoenberg, Erwartung; Forster, A Passage to India; Galsworthy, The White Monkey; Shaw, St. Joan; Mann, The Magic Mountain. It was also the year that Woodrow Wilson and Lenin died, that Hitler got out of prison, Coolidge was elected President, China, Britain and France recognized the U.S.S.R., Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, as everyone no doubt recalls, the Turks put down the revolting Kurds...