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The Wisdom Of Frank Wilczek

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Names in Physics

Murray Gellman famously lifted the word quark from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and co-opted it as Frank. You've also named some particles or hypothetical particles, including the slightly less poetic axion. Talk about how you think about how words have helped or hindered our understanding of the concepts they're intended to describe.

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