Good lines: words

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Good lines: words

"Like subatomic particles, every word in our language has its characteristic combination of mass, charge and spin."

From Bozo Sapiens by Michael and Ellen Kaplan.

24 May 2009 in Good lines, Non-fiction | Permalink

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Ah now you are talking my language! For those of you who would like to find out more (painfully much more I warn you) about our little subatomic friends then you can do no better than to rush over to here http://pdg.lbl.gov/2008/listings/contents_listings.html

If you would like, and who wouldn't, to cuddle your own subatomic particle then you can get them from here http://www.particlezoo.net/ (I have no connection commercial or otherwise with Particle Zoo).

Posted by: Dark Puss | 24 May 2009 at 06:28 PM

I just watched Simon Schama's John Donne and was really struck by what he called 'Donne's romance of the word'. Fiona Shaw explained this as Donne's belief that he could make words express the fullness of things. I guess that would be their mass and charge. Spin came later, with the Restoration.

Posted by: Ros | 28 May 2009 at 12:07 AM

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