In particle physics, "beauty," "strangeness," and "charm" are all terms referring to different "flavors" of quarks, which are fundamental building blocks of matter; essentially, they are different types of quarks with distinct properties, with "beauty" associated with the bottom quark, "strangeness" with the strange quark, and "charm" with the charm quark.
Physics: Why are the quarks so named?
The strange got its name from the strange mesons, which when discovered were behaving strangely, with respect to pions, needing a new quantum number because they were generated in pairs ( Lamda K) and the quantum number became the "strange" one.
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