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Subject: [OM] Re: Low cost backup
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 06:50:30 +0100
Thanks, Moose. You have enlightened me -- at least a little :-)

And I now understand that they were not normal metaphors.

Chris

On 18 May 2008, at 06:20, Moose wrote:

> You misunderstand. Quarks have various characteristics, none of which
> really correspond with things on the size scale where we experience  
> the
> universe. For good or ill, the Physicists who discovered quarks chose
> not to make up words to label all these qualities. Some,like 'spin'  
> and
> 'mass' wer similar enough to those qualities in other particles to be
> used. For those that had no apparent realtionship to anything else,  
> they
> used the words 'color' and 'flavor' for things that aren't those at  
> all.


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