Three Quarks For Muster Mark

Sure he hasn t got much of a bark and sure any he has it s all beside the mark.

Three quarks for muster mark. Three quarts for muster mark. On the word quark. View credits reviews tracks and shop for the 1989 cd release of three quarks for muster mark on discogs. Three quarks for muster mark.

Three quarks for muster mark. Three quarks for muster mark finnegans wake has long been a source of inspiration for creative minds but a recent discovery recent for me that the word quarkoriginated in joyce s work came as a surprise. Sure he has not got much of a bark a d h h it ll b id th k and sure any he has it s all beside the mark from finnegans wake 1939 by james joyce. Three quarks for muster mark.

But o wreneaglealmighty wouldn t un be a sky of a lark to see that old buzzard whoopingabout for uns shirt in the dark and he hunting round for uns speckledtrousers around by palmer stown park. He told researchers at the oxford english dictionary that he imagined joyce s line three quarks for muster mark to be a variation of a pub owner s call of three quarts for mister mark. Sure he hasn t got much of a bark and sure any he has it s all beside the mark. Depending on their flavour quarks have fractional electric charge values of either 1 3 or 2 3 times the elementary charge.

Murray gell man one of the two independent physicists who proposed the theory of quarks was actually inspired by a passage from the wake. So it seems appropriate that muster mark s quarks come in three. A quark for mister mark includes poems old and new whose subject is science its discoveries its processes but also poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze whether before copernicus or after einstein. But quark didn t sound quite like the kwork that was ringing in gell mann s head.

The word quark itself is a slavic borrowing in german and denotes a dairy product but is also a colloquial term for rubbish. 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. With knowledge of the origins of the word in joyce s classic quarks are aptly named to provide aide mémoire. Joyce clearly meant quark to rhyme with mark bark park and so forth but gell mann worked out a rationale for his own pronunciation based on the vowel of the word quart.

The physicist took a little creative license and reimagined the line as a call for drinks at the bar.