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...t to occur ever in the history of the universe. By comparison, the {{w|top quark|heaviest single particle}} we have observed, with a mass over a hundred tim

...wo {{w|whiskey sour}}s straight down — to use the final flavor ({{w|down quark}}).

...?", a pun on the "Sup" particle (supersymmetric partner 'squark' to the Up quark) and an abbreviation of the greeting "What's up?"

...particles. They form bound states e.g. the {{w|proton}} (two up + one down-quark) mediated by the {{w|Strong interaction|strong force}}, similarly as atoms

...act directly between {{w|proton}}s and {{w|neutron}}s but between the {{w|quark}}s that form them. Unlike gravity and electromagnetism, the strong force {{ ...nging one particle into another. It can cause a down quark to become an up quark, and in the process release a high-energy electron and electron anti-neutri

...nfinement}} means that we never see particles with {{w|color charge}} ({{w|quark}}s and {{w|gluon}}s) on their own. They exist only in groups that cancel ou

...s idea by mentioning neutrons, which are made of two down quarks and an up quark.

...ynamics|quantum chromodynamics}}, a theory of the strong force between {{w|Quark|quarks}} and {{w|Gluon|gluons}} which form {{w|Hadron|hadrons}} like {{w|Pr

...on the drawing. This will thus not be that far to the left but around the Quark epoch. ...ch|Quark Epoch}}''' (10^-12 seconds after the Big Bang): The universe is a quark-gluon plasma, up until 10^-6 seconds when it cools enough to coalesce into

...st in various extreme places around the universe; for example, the strange quark is suspected to be a component of the denser parts of neutron stars). ...masses of several particles, which have since been confirmed; the {{w|top quark}}'s mass was predicted in 1973, and experimentally verified in 1995, for ex

...ig Bang, the {{w|inflationary epoch}} ended, causing a large number of {{w|Quark|quarks, anti-quarks}}, and {{w|Gluon|gluons}} to come into existence. In {{

...renamed the "right quark" and the charm quark should be renamed the "left quark", so that all quarks will have "ordinary" directional names. ...cause it completes the second generation of quarks, along with the strange quark. When a third generation of quarks was proposed, they were called top and

...symmetry - as two quarks are now left without the third quark, and the big quark is now alone. That was explained in {{tvtropes|Fridge/HarryPotterAndTheMeth

| titletext = There's quark color, but that's not really color--it's just an admission by 20th century ...particular threefold quality of the necessary {{w|color confinement|inter-quark groupings}}. And he jokingly says that the 20th century physicists that cam

...cleons (protons and neutrons, these being each a particular triumvirate of quark 'flavors'), electrons (smaller, charged fermions) and various others (such

...the {{w|omega baryon}} was predicted to exist by Murray Gell-Mann's early quark theory, and then discovered several years later with the properties he had

| titletext = You'd think the most expensive part would be the quark-gluon plasma chamber, but it's actually usually the tube to the top of the |Quark-Gluon Plasma Chamber