Quarks

What I learned

Just yesterday I learned about quarks at a memorial honoring the passing of a great man. A scientist spoke of his friendship with the deceased and threw in the word quark. What’s that I wondered. I googled the word when I got home and discovered quarks are subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons. They come in different. flavors – the word physicists came up with to separate the different kinds of quarks. I still know precious little about them with the exception the universe may end in 10 billion years because of them. AND, of course, wherever you have quarks, you have antiquarks.

The point really isn't that I now know of the existence of quarks; albeit without any immediate plans to use this knowledge.  It's simply I learned something new. Now that I know about them, I suppose I can always use this as an ice-breaker - How 'bout them quarks!