Now that the eightfold way has been checked by this striking success, it can be used as a trusty tool in the search for more discoveries. *Since mass is equivalent to energy, ...

When physicist Murray Gell-Mann saw a pattern in hundreds of species of subatomic particles that seemed to naturally group them into families of eight, he dubbed it the Eightfold Way.

His Eightfold Way, mischievously named after a Buddhist doctrine of liberation, made sense of the new particles that had been discovered and predicted ones that hadn’t been.

Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist who devised the “eightfold way” to bring order to the world of elementary particles and conceived the idea of “quarks” to explain ...