What elementary particles are named after the cry of ducks? Detailed answer

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What elementary particles are named after the cry of ducks?

Murray Gell-Mann, who hypothesized that hadrons are composed of even smaller particles, decided to call these particles the sound that ducks make. The novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce helped him shape this sound into a suitable word, namely the line: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!". Hence particles are called quarks, although it is not at all clear what meaning this previously non-existent word had for Joyce.

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