La particula dau gabian

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Una nòva anecdòta encuèi : l'origina dau nom quark. La magèr part dei particulas an un nom que si pòu retraçar son etimologia, siá per lo comun dei mortaus (ex: neutre + on → neutron) siá per un grèga-parlant (ex: ἁδρός, hadrós, fòrt + on → hadron ). Mai lo quark fa excepcion, li a ges de rason racionala per qu'un quark siágue dich quark.

Aqueu nom foguèt balhat per lo paire dau modèl dei quarks, Murray Gell-Mann (premi Nobel 1969). Explica un pauc sa causida dins lo libre The Quark and the Jaguar, monte compara la fisica dei particulas e la teoria de l'evolucion. Ansin, aquela inspiracion es venguda de la legida de Finnegans Wake, un libre un pauc experimentau o finda estrange. Vaqui lo moment onte apareisse :
      Three quarks for Muster Mark!
      Sure he has not got much of a bark
      And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.
      —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Vos balhi aqui l'explicacion en inglés dau libre The Quark and The Jaguar (l'istòria ditz pas se aviá beugut e fumat coma John Ellis e sei pingoíns o se era simplament fadat) :

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 for Muster Mark". Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of the gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark", as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork". But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau" words in "Through the Looking-Glass". From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark", in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.