Who Knew we were so smart? lol strangeness.....yep, that's us

In particle physics, a kaons (pronounced /ˈkeɪ.ɒns/, also called a K-meson and denoted K[nb 1]) is any one of a group of four mesons distinguished by the fact that they carry a quantum number called strangeness. In the quark model they are understood to contain a strange quark (or antiquark), paired with an up or down antiquark (or quark).

Kaons have proved to be a copious source of information on the nature of fundamental interactions since their discovery in 1947. They were essential in establishing the foundations of the Standard Model of particle physics, such as the quark model of hadrons and the theory of quark mixing (the latter was acknowledged by a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008). Kaons played a distinguished role in our understanding of fundamental conservation laws: the discovery of CP violation, a phenomenon generating the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe, was made in the kaon system, which was acknowledged by a Nobel prize in 1980.

wow, who knew.

And to think we were worried about the word associations we'd get for using KANS as our acronym!