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What is the meaning of quarks?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 5/15/2022

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann coined the term specifically to identify the particle; it was intended as an entirely new word (neologism). Having decided its pronunciation he only later decided on the spelling, which was resolved when he came across the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in the book Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. The book itself was known to play liberally with language and presented a lot of invented words including puns and portmanteaus; hence, it may be of interest that Gell-Mann thought Joyce's intent with the word quark may have meant, among other things, 'the cry of the gull' or, possibly in a pun context, he speculated it related to the call for drinks at a bar and thus meant "quart." He added that, in any case, having "three" in Joyce's phrasing fitted nicely with how quarks appear in nature.

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