Behold the pentaquark

We’re all familiar with baryons (made of three quarks) and mesons (comprised of two quarks – a quark and an anti-quark), now physicists have evidence of pentaquarks, made up of 5 quarks (one of them an anti-quark) once again demonstrating how little we actually know about the makeup of the universe.

Posted on July 1, 2003
Filed Under Science | Leave a Comment

Comments

Leave a Reply