Bottom Quark

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Quarks were discovered little by little. The existence of the bottom and top quark, for example, had been predicted for a long time before they were found. Physicists were so happy about them turning up eventually and confirming their ideas that the new quarks were briefly called “beauty quark“ and “truth quark.“ Once everyone got ahold of themselves, they were renamed “bottom quark” and “top quark”.

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