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physicists at Fermilab discovered "top" quark, leading Dr. P. K. Iyengar,
eminent scientist and former chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy
Commission, to finally give the theosophists a modicum of credit
when he remarked, "The top quark discovered recently substantiates
that occult chemistry is a phenomenon which exists and should be ac-
cepted as such."
Further, to differentiate the newly discovered quarks, physicists as-
signed them three different colors-red, blue, and green-though they
were quick to point out that the choice had nothing to do with our
ordinary perception of color. It was just a conventional way of labeling
differing mathematical qualities encountered by theorists.
So quarks were a fact, validating-better late than never-the
theosophists' diagrams of three such particles to a proton.
As the proton was seen to be made of two ups and one down quark,
the neutron of one up and two downs, this gave the proton a positive
charge of 1.0, leaving the neutron neutral with a charge of 0.0. With
three quarks to a proton, add an electron and you have an atom of hy-
drogen. It-as all the other elements-turns out to be made of noth-
ing but quarks and electrons.The whole universe must therefore be put
together basically with but two quarks-one up and one down-plus
the electron.
And quarks? Of what are they made?
The problem propelled Phillips into some abstruse mathematical
calculations, which inexorably led to the conclusion that quarks must
consist of subquarks, also three in number-just as the theosophists had
presaged with their UPAS. For these postulant particles Phillips coined
the name omegons.
This omegon theory was reassuringly backed by Dr. Lester Smith as
being "straight orthodox science founded upon recent theory of quan-
tum chromodynamics which could be and was offered for publication
in a scientific journal." Duly accepted, it appeared under the typically
abstruse title of "Composite Quarks and Hadron-Lepton Unification."
It was at this point in his mathematical quest that Phdips came
across the theosophists' book in California, with its "hydrogen atom"