[Taxacom] International Commission on Subatomic Particle Nomenclature?

[Bob Morris]

'By the 1980s physicists were drowning in a sea of subatomic
particles. Every time they smashed an atom apart with powerful
particle accelerators, they found scores of new particles spitting
out.  It was so frustrating that J. Robert Oppenheimer declared that
the Nobel Prize in Physics should go to the physicist who did \not/
discover a new particle that year. (Enrico Fermi, horrified at the
proliferation of subatomic particles with Greek sounding names, said,
"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I would have
become a botanist.")'
Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible", Doubleday, 2008., p.
234-235, Chapter 13 ("Parallel Universes", section on String Theory

--Bob Morris
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Robert A. Morris

Emeritus Professor? of Computer Science
UMASS-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125-3390
IT Staff
Filtered Push Project
Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University


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