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Particle softly vanishes away
SNARKS: what kind of particle would they be? Confronted with a piece of fruitloopery defining “quarky behaviour” as emitting “small, negative message clouds”, our sense of lexical symmetry demanded a particle of that name (8 November).
We had in mind “snark”, in the sense of a snippy comment. Magnus Peterson was just one of the readers who reminded us that Lewis Carroll had anticipated us in his poem The Hunting of the Snark : “To deal properly with quantum fruitloopery, you need a boojum. Because, encountering it, purveyors…
