Virtual PD     | Join MnSTA    |   

Top > Physics & Chemistry Songs > WE SIX QUARKS

WE SIX QUARKS

posted on 9:49 AM, July 8, 2010
We six quarks fine particles are
Bearing charm we travel afar
Through ups and downs, though strange it sounds
Beauty and truth’s our star

Chorus: Oh, quarks are wondrous, quarks are light
Quarks have colors clear and bright
Still misleading, still exceeding
All the physicists’ delight!

We six quarks trade bosons all day
Bosons are messengers made in this way
W’s, photons, Z’s and gluons
The graviton’s a mystery (Repeat Chorus)

Trios make a baryon state
Paired with anti’s mesons we make
Always hiding, always biding
Never without a mate (Repeat Chorus)
— tune: “We Three Kings of Orient Are” — words by Larry Josbeno with assistance from John Roeder at the 1988 Woodrow Wilson Institute on High School Physics — adapted from The Official Oberlin College Songbook