elementary particles can be organised into kinship groups

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An example of simile in popular science writing:

"By the 1950s, elementary (or seemingly elementary) particles were proliferating, and new 'quantum numbers' were invented to describe them: charge, spin, parity (related to mirror image symmetry), isospin, strangeness, charm … they came out of efforts to classify particles by their properties, to organise them into kinship groups, so to speak, depending on how interacted with each other."

David Lindley

Lindley, D. (2020). The Dream Universe. How fundamental physics lost its way. Doubleday.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.