> >She hypothesizes (it's only theory mind you) that bees can sense their
> >environment through the activity of quarks in some way.
>
> It is remarkable enough that bees are able to sense the earth's magnetic
> field through the orientation of tiny crystals of ferromagnetite in their
> body.  These crystals have a size expressed in nanometers (ten to the minus
> nine meters I believe).  The sensory receptor for these is still I believe
> unknown.  But quarks!  That is hard to believe or even conceive of. The
> sensory receptor would have to be subatomic.
 
Not necessarily.  In particle accelerators, they detect elemental particles
like quarks and bosons, etc .
The detection equipment at CERN couldn't be subatomic.  Could it?
But the whole idea is quite fascinating, that bees could possibly interact with
quarks!
 
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