[tet68]

Headline:

9 Anti-Quarks found in IOWA!
Of the nine found none were of the Charm variety,
while the rest were made up of strange, bottom and down quarks, an illusive "crusty" quark was observed to degass
for an unusually long time.

Several of the 'strange' quarks had unusual properties,
one appeared to come from vietnam and had a sticky reddish coating.
Another had the odor of, oddly enough, maple syrup.

[mdmathis6]

It was my fault they found it, I forgot to flush before I left Tokyo......

[Happy2BMe]

So now the Japanese have a corner market on . . QUARKS?

[mrobison]

Delay that order, Spock. We still remember the time on Rigel 5 when you tried to fix the sub-neutron rectifier using only kitchen utensils.

[mrsmith]

"speculating that it might be a hitherto unseen type of meson"

A Thirty-Fourth degree Meson?

[riri]

Wow, was that English?

[GOPJ]

Ping me when someone finds a gravitron...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Another blow to the standard model.

[RightWingAtheist]

I'd recommend John Gribbin's Q for Quantum as introduction to the basic terminology and concepts behind contemporary physics. After that, it should be fairly easy to step up to more advanced stuff. Barry Parks and Gordon Kane have written some excellent books which have received surprisingly little attention, even though they do an excellent job at demystfying contemporary particle physics and making it understandable.

I might add that I'm impressed by the level of scientific literacy, and willingess to learn on the part of most layman Freepers-with a few exceptions (*cough*hack*creationists*cough*). Usually, finding mostly laymen discussing on the net means a gathering of crackpots.