# Beatles - Why only 2 mics?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-why-only-2-mics/547704>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 23, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-why-only-2-mics/547704 "2010-07-23T13:11:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-why-only-2-mics/547704/41 "2010-09-29T06:16:38Z")

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> [@BrotherCadfael](#):
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> > [@K364](#):
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> > and neutrons hadn’t been invented yet
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> And, dagnabit, we \*liked \*it that way!

You kids with your hadrons and your leptons … nobody 'preciates a good sub-atomic particle any more.

Heck, in my day, we didn’t have get all hoity-toity _Ooh-look-at-me-I’m-finding-the-Higgs-Boson_… them bosons were right out in public, why you couldn’t walk over to the slot car store without seein’ a whole passel o’ neutrinos and bosons ricochetin’ down State Street!

But you ask a college frosh these days (we call 'em the 13th Graders!) and they’ve prob’ly never even noticed 'em. Kids. These. Days.

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