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Posted By: Dave M <pat@fur.com> In Response To: Minor correction... (Bloodrain)
Date: 18 June 2001, 16:53
> Apparently the names "Truth" and "Beauty" predate the
> names "Top" and "Bottom" for quarks. I had it
> backwards. (It also appears that "truth" and "beauty"
> may still be preferred by European physicists, while Americans prefer the
> hard-headed, no-nonsense (or perhaps not-so-subtly sexual) "top"
> and "bottom."
Topping bottom quarks has its ups and downs, but there is a strange charm to it. (Thank yew, I'll be here all week. Throw money; no coins, though. They hurt.)
(Oh, and for those who don't get the reference: up, down, top (or truth), bottom (or beauty), strange, and charm are all names of quarks...)
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