Sunday, January 04, 2004

Quirky Quarks

"That’s very disturbing." So says a physicist about quarks not behaving the way they are calculated to behave.  In recent experiments, physicists have found that quarks, which are supposed to spinning one way, are actually spinning another way and, hogging most the energy of a neutron.  The article is entitled “Topsy Turvy: In neutrons and protons, quarks take wrong turns."

Via Gene Expression.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/04 at 05:32 AM
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