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Originally posted by lumberjim
what if we are all quarks living onthe surface of the electron called earth?
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(Pie reaches really far back to her quantum physics classes)
Electrons are leptons, and are therefore not made up of quarks, iirc.
Hadrons (baryons and mesons) are made up of quarks. Mesons are made up of quark/antiquark pairs, baryons (protons, neutrons, etc) are made up of triplets of quarks whos charges sum to an integer value.
Analogy breaks down a little.
- Pie, physics major waaaay back when...
PS: Here's a good
site with some of these particles and subparticles defined.