quarks

     

A quark (IPA: /kwɔrk/, IPA: /kwɑːk/ or IPA: /kwɑːrk/) is a generic type of physical particle that forms one of the two basic constituents of matter, the other being the lepton. Various species of quarks combine in specific ways to form protons an neutrons, in each case taking exactly three quarks to make the composite particle in question.

Trivia about quarks

  • Our world is basically made of the up & down types of these subatomic particles
  • Among particles in this family are the up, down, strange, and charmed
  • These elementary particles can be designated up, down, strange, charm, beauty, bottom, truth or top
  • Color is a property of these fundamental particles that come in strange & charm types
  • The proton consists of 2 types of this elementary particle: 2 up & 1 down
  • A proton contains 3 of these subatomic particles, 2 "up" & 1 "down"
  • This elementary building block of matter comes in 6 types: down, up, bottom, top, strange & charm
  • Grouped in pairs, these fundamental particles of atomic nulcei come in 6 "flavors" or types
  • These theorized subatomic particles take their name from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake"
  • Sadly, James Joyce died before these hypothetical particles were named for a word he used in "Finnegan's Wake"
  • Up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top
  • These subatomic particles come in 6 flavors, including up, down & strange
  • Murray Gell-Mann adopted this word for various hypothetical particles from "Finnegan's Wake"

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