Quark vs Lepton - What's the difference?
quark | lepton |
(particle) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
* 1993 , Gell-Mann won the linguistic battle once again: his choice, a croaking nonsense word, was "quark". (After the fact, he was able to tack on a literary antecedent when he found the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake, but the physicists quark was pronounced from the beginning to rhyme with "cork".) — (James Gleick), Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
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(computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, and eastern Europe, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
A small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BC, considered by some to be the widow's mite.
An elementary particle with a spin of 1/2 (a fermion) which is immune to the strong nuclear force (including the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon).
As nouns the difference between quark and lepton
is that quark is in the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter. Quarks have never been found alone as of this writing, They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons while lepton is a small, bronze Judean coin from the 1st century BC, considered by some to be the widow's mite.quark
English
(wikipedia quark)Etymology 1
First used in 1963 by one of the theorists who postulated the existence of quarks, Wikipedia article.Noun
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