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by kmm 1777 days ago
Fun fact, the reason strange quarks are named strange is because when we discovered the first hadrons containing those quarks, they were strangely long-lived.

Long-lived here meaning 10^-10 seconds, instead of 10^-20 seconds. A whole tenth of a nanosecond!

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That is actually quite a long time at the quantum scale.