Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
> > >> Tim Shoppa | Internet: shoppa_at_triumf.ca
> > >> TRIUMF, Canada's National Meson Facility | Voice: 604-222-1047 loc 6446
> > >Hey Tim, what is a Meson Facility anyway?
> > Mesons are simply either pions, muons, or kasons!
>
> To complicate matters, muons used to be called "mu mesons", but it
> turned out that muons weren't mesons after all - they're leptons.
> Doesn't matter much, because as a practical matter we make muons too.
> (Pion decay is the common method.)
After you make them, who buys them?
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sat Nov 15 1997 - 10:53:48 GMT