Starship Asterisk*

stephen63 wrote:

Ann wrote:
One more riddle... but I'm going to bed now, and won't be able to react to your guesses (if any) for several hours now!

The strong nuclear force? Red, Green and Blue describe the color charge of the quarks. Together, they have to be white(colorless) in order to be held together.

Beyond wrote:Well, i must say I'm enjoying all the clues, even though i don't have a clue as to what they're trying to clue me in on. I just went through Wikipedia's description of James Joyce and couldn't find anything relevant to anything, that i could recognize as being relevant to your puzzle. Oh... the bursting clue... rubber bands. (or something as mundane as gravity)

stephen63 wrote:
Strong force property: Over a short range its strength increases with distance between the quarks. While they are close together the quarks experience little force, but as they separate the force between them grows rapidly, pulling them back together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke wrote:
<<Robert Hooke FRS (28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.

Hooke's law is a principle of physics that states that the force F needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance X is proportional to that distance. That is, where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring, its stiffness. Hooke's equation in fact holds (to some extent) in many other situations where an elastic body is deformed, such as wind blowing on a tall building, a musician plucking a string of a violin, or the filling of a party balloon. An elastic body or material for which this equation can be assumed is said to be linear-elastic or Hookean.

[b][color=#0000FF]Hooke noted the shadows (a and b) cast by both the globe and the rings on each other in this drawing of Saturn.[/color][/b]

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One of the more-challenging problems tackled by Hooke was the measurement of the distance to a star (other than the Sun). The star chosen was Gamma Draconis and the method to be used was parallax determination. After several months of observing, in 1669, Hooke believed that the desired result had been achieved. It is now known that Hooke's equipment was far too imprecise to allow the measurement to succeed. Gamma Draconis was the same star James Bradley used in 1725 in discovering the aberration of light. Hooke's activities in astronomy extended beyond the study of stellar distance. His Micrographia contains illustrations of the Pleiades star cluster as well as of lunar craters. He performed experiments to study how such craters might have formed. Hooke also was an early observer of the rings of Saturn, and discovered one of the first observed double-star systems, Gamma Arietis, in 1664. Craters on the Moon and on Mars are named in his honour.>>

neufer wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke wrote:
<<Robert Hooke FRS (28 July [O.S. 18 July] 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.

Hooke's law is a principle of physics that states that the force F needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance X is proportional to that distance. That is, where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring, its stiffness. Hooke's equation in fact holds (to some extent) in many other situations where an elastic body is deformed, such as wind blowing on a tall building, a musician plucking a string of a violin, or the filling of a party balloon. An elastic body or material for which this equation can be assumed is said to be linear-elastic or Hookean.

[b][color=#0000FF]Hooke noted the shadows (a and b) cast by both the globe and the rings on each other in this drawing of Saturn.[/color][/b]

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One of the more-challenging problems tackled by Hooke was the measurement of the distance to a star (other than the Sun). The star chosen was Gamma Draconis and the method to be used was parallax determination. After several months of observing, in 1669, Hooke believed that the desired result had been achieved. It is now known that Hooke's equipment was far too imprecise to allow the measurement to succeed. Gamma Draconis was the same star James Bradley used in 1725 in discovering the aberration of light. Hooke's activities in astronomy extended beyond the study of stellar distance. His Micrographia contains illustrations of the Pleiades star cluster as well as of lunar craters. He performed experiments to study how such craters might have formed. Hooke also was an early observer of the rings of Saturn, and discovered one of the first observed double-star systems, Gamma Arietis, in 1664. Craters on the Moon and on Mars are named in his honour.>>

stephen63 wrote:
OK, Art. But please explain the connection to Joyce!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark#Etymology wrote:
<<For some time, Murray Gell-Mann was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word quark in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake:

• Three quarks for Muster Mark!
  Sure he has not got much of a bark
  And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
  —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Gell-Mann went into further detail regarding the name of the quark in his book, The Quark and the Jaguar:

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". But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau" words in "Through the Looking-Glass". From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark", in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.

Zweig preferred the name ace for the particle he had theorized, but Gell-Mann's terminology came to prominence once the quark model had been commonly accepted.

The quark flavors were given their names for a number of reasons. The up and down quarks are named after the up and down components of isospin, which they carry. Strange quarks were given their name because they were discovered to be components of the strange particles discovered in cosmic rays years before the quark model was proposed; these particles were deemed "strange" because they had unusually long lifetimes. Glashow, who coproposed charm quark with Bjorken, is quoted as saying, "We called our construct the 'charmed quark', for we were fascinated and pleased by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world." The names "bottom" and "top", coined by Harari, were chosen because they are "logical partners for up and down quarks". In the past, bottom and top quarks were sometimes referred to as "beauty" and "truth" respectively, but these names have somewhat fallen out of use. While "truth" never did catch on, accelerator complexes devoted to massive production of bottom quarks are sometimes called "beauty factories".>>

Art wrote:
Technically,
1) there should be two paint cans being tossed
and both quarks should have color both before & after.

Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he has not got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

Ann wrote:

Art wrote:
Technically,
1) there should be two paint cans being tossed
and both quarks should have color both before & after.

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Color-dueling color charge quarks!!!

Ann