Why did some people have to talk about Bottoms after they lost their Beauty in the search for Truth?

lanfranco

Is this another question about a claymation film? Because there is a character called "Harry Bottoms," a vulcanologist who appears in a new film called "Disaster." He has also been used in a spoof online presidential campaign. I must say, gmack, that I've encountered some very odd websites while working on this question. May 27 05, 1:03 PM

TabbyTom

I think this has to do with quarks. There are apparently six "flavours" of quark, viz up, down, strange, charmed, top and bottom. The top and bottom types were originally called truth and beauty. I wouldn't recognize a quark if it bit me, but surely (if Keats is to be our guide) "truth" and "beauty" should have been the same thing? May 27 05, 3:46 PM

lanfranco

http://education.jlab.org/qa/quark_04.html Ah, yes, it seems that couldn't find the Truth quark for years, which created a problem or two for the names, so they switched back to the more prosaic Top and Bottom. I doubt that Keats would have cared much about quarks. Though particle physics does have its poetry and romance. May 27 05, 4:03 PM

peasypod

Considering the Joycean connection, I doubt whether literary sense is a high priority in quark nomenclature... May 27 05, 4:25 PM

lanfranco

Hmmm. Is that a comment on Joyce or physicists, peasy? May 27 05, 4:44 PM

gmackematix

If I'm mustering marks for you here I'd have to give a yay with 1/3 spin to Frankie and 2/3 spin to Tabby. Quantum physics has its Ups and Downs. Apparently the Hollies couldn't tell the Bottom from the Top. And everyone here must know that Truth and Strangeness are never far apart. May 27 05, 7:18 PM