This item was brought to my attention. Its not really a satire yet--- but there HAS to be some satire of ``12 days'' having to do with Physics out there someplace. Until I find it, I'll use this as a placeholder. From bpostow@cs.umd.edu Tue Oct 5 18:44:20 1999 In article <37E2BF69.203DF274@ibm.net>, alberg1@ibm.net wrote: > I'm not much of a physic mavin, but a recent Scientific American artical > (July 1999, "Inside the Proton") says that in fact a proton contains > lots of virtual strange quarks. They show a diagram of a single > configuration containing: > 6 up quarks > 4 up anti-quarks > 4 down quarks > 3 down anti-quarks > 2 strange quarks > 2 strange anti-quarks > plus lots of gluons. Why do I get the feeling that there's a quantum-theory parody version of The Twelve Days of Christmas coming up in this thread? "...and a half-dead cat in a box."