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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by 77pt77 on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:05PM (#12811631)
> That's funny, Afaik quarks still confuse physicists because they behave erratically and appear to be composed of other particles.

I'd really like a source for the composite quark claim.

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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by justinator on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:12PM (#12811680)
Well, String Theory.
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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by 77pt77 on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:46PM (#12822542)
Couldn't have given a worse answer.

1. String theory has no experimental backing.

2. It doesn't posit that currently fundamental particles become composite.

For a decent explanation see:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/38767/relation-b...

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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by eternauta3k on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:25PM (#12811743)
What evidence is there for quarks being composite?
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