Y Robin - Inferno, Quarks
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Label: La Buissonne
Cat No: YAN007
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd December 2021
Contents
Artists
Eric-Maria Couturier (cello)Orchestre National de Lille
Conductors
Alexandre BlochPeter Rundel
Works
InfernoQuarks (Concerto for cello and orchestra)
Artists
Eric-Maria Couturier (cello)Orchestre National de Lille
Conductors
Alexandre BlochPeter Rundel
About
'Quarks are the elementary particles of matter, the smallest known to date. They were discovered by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann. It was the story of their name that inspired me. These amazing particles, the quarks, are enclosed in the nucleus of the atom, inside the protons and neutrons themselves. When they were discovered, it was necessary to find a name for them. Murray Gell-Mann wanted to avoid using ancient Greek at all costs, especially because his predecessors had taken the word "atom" (atoms meaning "unbreakable, uncut") from the Greek. A name made obsolete by subsequent scientific discoveries, first by that of the protons and neutrons that make up the atom considered indivisible, then by his own discovery further dividing matter inside protons and neutrons.
'However, the physicist was keen to find a name that would not become meaningless, even if it persisted in the future.To be prepared for any eventuality, he imagined a new name, without any meaning, which was first and foremost a sound. The physicist has the idea of a phoneme, an onomatopoeia that he pronounces: "Kwork". What was only a sound for Gell-Mann, remained so for a while, until he discovered this quote from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for muster mark". The sound became incarnated in a word and the elementary particles had found a way to write their name.'
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