History and Science

[Urselius]

I get the feeling that my, perhaps elliptical, sense of humour is not being picked up on in all cases.

I got it. But then again I'm British.

Martin is alluding to the strange and fantastic nature of quantum physics, where what shouldn't happen happens.

I think. :?

Yup.

Strange and charm are quarks.

"Frodo you must bear the sacred quantum harmonic oscillator of King Photino and take it across the perilous Boson Mountains, mindful of the evil quarks who infest the slopes....."

It loses some by explanation