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== Lifetime top quark ==
== Lifetime top quark ==


Following up on [[elementary charge]], I read here that the top quark with charge 2/3 ''e'' can exist outside confinement. You write less than 5 &times; 10<sup>&minus;25</sup> sec. The question that pops up here is how much less? Anyway, it seems to me that for all practical purposes ''e'' is the smallest charge outside  confinement, and that the free top quark may be mentioned as an exotic exception to the rule.--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 08:40, 12 November 2007 (CST)
Following up on [[elementary charge]], I read here that the top quark with charge 2/3 ''e'' can exist outside confinement. You write less than 5 &times; 10<sup>&minus;25</sup> sec. The question that pops up here is how much less? Anyway, it seems to me that for all practical purposes ''e'' is the smallest charge outside  confinement, and that the free top quark may be mentioned as an exotic exception to the rule.--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 08:40, 12 November 2007 (CST)

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 Definition Any of a group of six elementary particles having electric charges of a magnitude one-third or two-thirds that of the electron, regarded as constituents of all hadrons. [d] [e]
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Lifetime top quark

Following up on elementary charge, I read here that the top quark with charge 2/3 e can exist outside confinement. You write less than 5 × 10−25 sec. The question that pops up here is how much less? Anyway, it seems to me that for all practical purposes e is the smallest charge outside confinement, and that the free top quark may be mentioned as an exotic exception to the rule.--Paul Wormer 08:40, 12 November 2007 (CST)