One is Up & Down & Everything in-between

i.e. 1 is 2 & 3 & therefore 6 & 9, up to 21

"Kidding" Up, Down and Everything in Between

The episode aired Feb 9, 2020, TV-MA 29 min

Hadrons 『強子』 from Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “thick”) +‎ -on. ― Coined by Russian physicist Lev Okun in 1962 in a plenary talk at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.

There are 3 quarks: up, down and strange & each has a corresponding antiquark of opposite charge.

All types of hadrons have zero total colour charge

(three examples shown)

An odd property of quarks is that they have charges that are fractions of the electron charge.

Only two types of quarks are necessary to build protons and neutrons, the constituents of atomic nuclei. These are the up quark, with a charge of +2/3e, and the down quark, which has a charge of −1/3e.

The proton consists of two up quarks and one down quark, which gives it a total charge of +e.

《道德經 ― 第三十九章》

昔之得一者：

天得一以清；

地得一以寧；

神得一以靈；

谷得一以盈；

萬物得一以生；

侯王得一以為天下貞。

其致之，

天無以清，將恐裂；

地無以寧，將恐發；

神無以靈，將恐歇；

谷無以盈，將恐竭；

萬物無以生，將恐滅；

侯王無以貴高將恐蹶。

故貴以賤為本，高以下為基。

是以侯王自稱孤、寡、不穀。

此非以賤為本耶？非乎？故致數譽無譽。

不欲琭琭如玉，珞珞如石。

39 ― James Legge (The origin of the law)

The things which from of old have got the One (the Dao) are ―

• Heaven which by it is bright and pure;
• Earth rendered thereby firm and sure;
• Spirits with powers by it supplied;
• Valleys kept full throughout their void
• All creatures which through it do live
• Princes and kings who from it get
• The model which to all they give.

All these are the results of the One (Dao).

• If heaven were not thus pure, it soon would rend;
• If earth were not thus sure, it would break and bend;
• Without these powers, the spirits soon would fail;
• If not so filled, the drought would parch each vale;
• Without that life, creatures would pass away;
• Princes and kings, without that moral sway,
• However grand and high, would all decay.

Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous) meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from which it rises). Hence princes and kings call themselves 'Orphans,' 'Men of small virtue,' and as 'Carriages without a nave.' Is not this an acknowledgement that in their considering themselves mean they see the foundation of their dignity? So it is that in the enumeration of the different parts of a carriage we do not come on what makes it answer the ends of a carriage. They do not wish to show themselves elegant-looking as jade, but (prefer) to be coarse-looking as an (ordinary) stone.

Dao De Ching Chapter 39 ― A. Charles Muller

39. These in the past have attained wholeness...

These in the past have attained wholeness:

• Heaven attains wholeness with its clarity;
• The Earth attains wholeness with its firmness;
• The Spirit attains wholeness with its transcendence;
• The Valley attain wholeness when filled;
• The Myriad Things attain wholeness in life;
• The Ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

In effecting this:

• If Heaven lacked clarity it would be divided;
• If the Earth lacked firmness it would fly away;
• If the spirit lacked transcendence it would be exhausted;
• If the valley lacked fullness it would be depleted;
• If the myriad things lacked life they would vanish.
• If the ruler lacks nobility and loftiness he will be tripped up.

Hence

• Nobility has lowliness as its root
• The High has the Low as its base.
• Thus the kings call themselves "the orphan, the lowly, the unworthy."

Is this not taking lowliness as the fundamental? Isn't it?

In this way, you can bring about great effects without burden.

Not desiring the rarity of gems

Or the manyness of grains of sand.

39 ― Arthur Waley

As for the things that from of old have understood the Whole —

The sky through such understanding remains limpid,

Earth remains steady,

The spirits keep their holiness,

The abyss is replenished,

The ten thousand creatures bear their kind,

Barons and princes direct their people.

It is the Whole that causes it.

Were it not so limpid, the sky would soon get torn,

Were it not for steadiness, the earth would soon tip over,

Were it not for their holiness, the spirit would soon wither away.

Were it not for this replenishment, the abyss would soon go dry,

Were it not that ten thousand creatures can bear their kind,

They would soon become extinct.

Were the barons and princes no longer directors of their people

And for that reason honoured and exalted, they would soon be overthrown.

Truly “ the humble is the stem upon which the mighty grows,

The low is the foundation upon which the high is laid.”

That is why barons and princes refer to themselves as “The Orphan”,

“The Needy”, “The Ill-provided.

Is this not indeed a case of might rooting itself upon humility?

True indeed are the sayings:

“Enumerate the parts of a carriage,

And you still have not explained what a carriage is,”

And They did not want themselves to tinkle like jade-bells,

While others resounded like stone chimes”.