Re: What's a quark?

[Tuomas Lukka <lukka@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> In your new merge terminology, how exactly is a quark defined? Consider
> cell neg and cell pos, which are connected on dimension dim. Are neg's
> posward and pos' negward connection different quarks-- or is the whole
> connection, from neg to pos, a single quark? In the Design Problems doc,
> it sounds like you mean the former, but in the change list code, it
> sounds like the latter.

I think of it more as the latter. But the distinction does not make
it into practice since quarks immdiately bond to form atoms
(physicists talk of "confinement": unlike gravity, the force does
not decay).

	Tuomas