These particles are known not to have substructure. If it's true that the particles have no substructure, then they are the basic building blocks that make up everything in the universe. A well-known nickname for these particles is a "God Particle". They got this name because the particles make up solids, liquid, and gases. Without them we wouldn't have much.
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Quarks are part of the building blocks which build up matter. The quark has 6 types, or flavors, which are up, down, strange, charm, bottom and up. He proposed this with another scientist named George Zweig.The word quark comes from a poem in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake ". Quarks also explain the symmetry of the Eightfold Way.
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The Eightfold way was named after the Buddha's eightfold path to truth. Many particles are put into different "families" based on abstract mathematical construct. They pretty much explain particles.
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