I was at fencing when you posted that. It is, without doubt, the single most important thing I have ever read. It has changed my life. I can now crack eggs and not get bits of shell in the egg. I can leap tall buildings with at least a single bound. I can drink beer and not spill any. Most importantly, I know approximately how long I have to put up with these damned pions! Here I am, sitting quietly, whiling away the hours slamming protons together just for the hell of it, and WHAMMO! suddenly I'm surrounded by a flock of pions! No quark-antiquark pairs, just these damned pions, buzzing around and stinging. And no Gluon, of course!, there to help -- Gluon's off doing something slightly impolite on a rug in the 7th dimension or somewhere. Well, I think that it's the most important thing I've read, mostly because I'm nearly out of pionicide spray.