Episode 411 - Frank Wilczek
Probably Science
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Is That a Subatomic Particle?
The particle was introduced to solve a problem in which an axial current was involved. So I could tell the editors of physical review letters that, okay, I'm introducing this name because there's an axialCurrent and it's kind of cleaning up a problem. Not just because it looked like washing powder. No, no, that would never have gotten past the reviewers and editors. It's absolutely become the standard name.
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