When is a Bottom Synonymous With Beauty?

Here's a scientific riddle.

Q: "When is a Bottom synonymous with Beauty?"

A: "When it's a quark."

I was thoroughly enjoying Mark Zastrow's piece on astrology.com about a newly discovered giant exoplanet  and why it is called b.Centauri b. when I was diverted in both senses of the word by his mention of a Very Large Telescope.

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/12/a-planet-with-the-biggest-host-stars-known

Rejoicing in the glorious, understated imagination of astronomers when it comes to descriptive language, particularly with regard to the "Large", I nipped off to check on the  Large Hadron Collider, and came across the gem of  that a "bottom quark" is another name for a "beauty quark".

Moreover, a bottom quark (or beauty quark) can be unpredictable. It has been known to behave badly!

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/07/beauty-quarks-behaving-badly/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2272400-has-the-large-hadron-collider-finally-challenged-the-laws-of-physics/ 

For those of us with less astral interests, we're still thinking about well-shaped, even large, buttocks, which leads to the copyright-law related topic --naturally-- of product placement.

Legal blogger Jack Greiner --of Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP, on his highly acclaimed, award-winning Jack Out Of The Box blog-- discusses Awkward Product Placement. To wit, putting actor Chris Noth's butt on a Peloton without permission....and then killing him off (fictionally).

https://graydon.law/awkward-product-placement/

Great minds from Baker Hostetler LLP also found the story apparently irresistible. Amy Ralph Mudge's views on publicity, and when it is better to build on a sensational story rather than to sue, are great.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3bec237f-04bc-44aa-8078-68a5ac88c4e6

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3bec237f-04bc-44aa-8078-68a5ac88c4e6&utm_source=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed&utm_medium=HTML+email+-+Body+-+General+section&utm_campaign=Lexology+subscriber+daily+feed&utm_content=Lexology+Daily+Newsfeed+2021-12-16&utm_term=

Disclaimer, lest something thinks I am pumping it: I bought Peloton (PTON) stock on Friday...pretty much close to the bottom of the day.

All the best,

Rowena Cherry