Thanks, Moose. You have enlightened me -- at least a little :-)
And I now understand that they were not normal metaphors.
Chris
On 18 May 2008, at 06:20, Moose wrote:
> You misunderstand. Quarks have various characteristics, none of which
> really correspond with things on the size scale where we experience
> the
> universe. For good or ill, the Physicists who discovered quarks chose
> not to make up words to label all these qualities. Some,like 'spin'
> and
> 'mass' wer similar enough to those qualities in other particles to be
> used. For those that had no apparent realtionship to anything else,
> they
> used the words 'color' and 'flavor' for things that aren't those at
> all.
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