Martin's Gull name

[mkoxxy]

I think I have it: quark. Pronounced "kwork", as in "quart".

>From Wikipedia:

Gell-Mann went into further detail regarding the name of the quark in his
book, *The Quark and the Jaguar
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... &redlink=1>*
:[45] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark#cite_note-Murray-48>

In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents
of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could
have been "kwork". Then, in one of my occasional perusals of *Finnegans
Wake*, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three
quarks for Muster Mark". Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of
the gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark", as well as "bark" and
other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork"...

There are a number of connotations that would fit. Like, "cry of the
seagull" (eGull!), and Muster Mark. And, "Quarks have various intrinsic
properties, including electric charge, mass, color charge and spin." And,
of course, quarks are very small.
Now, who will have the other 2 quarks? Originally, there were 3 types (or
colors): up, down, and strange. Up and down have the lowest mass. Dibs on
"up"!

Mark B, I hope you won't mind being known as "Muster Mark" frome here on!

Martin

[earthstaraircraft]

As long as it is not monster Mark :)

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