“What Are Quarks Made of? Are There Infinitely Smaller Building Blocks? Can Particles Be Infinitely Small?”
Have you ever wondered about the fundamental building blocks of the universe? #quarks #particlephysics
Understanding Particle Physics
If you’re curious about the smallest components of matter, you’re not alone. #elementaryparticles
The Quest for Smaller Particles
Is there a limit to how small a particle can be? Are there particles smaller than quarks?
– Scientists have been delving into this question for decades.
– The search for even tinier building blocks continues.
– Exploring the mysteries of the universe at a subatomic level.
Unveiling the Composition of Quarks
Are quarks made of something even smaller?
– Quarks are considered fundamental particles.
– As of current knowledge, quarks are not made of smaller components.
– Unraveling the intricacies of quarks and their properties.
By diving into the world of particle physics, we can unlock the secrets of nature’s most basic elements. Let’s continue exploring the mysteries of the cosmos together! #particlephysics101
All our models suggest quarks are fundamental particles, along with electrons, neutrinos, photons and such. It is probably important to say that we don’t model quarks and such as particles but waves, all matter is waves in quantum fields.
These models are very good, they can predict the results of experiments to 15 decimal places.
There is a minimum size too, the plank length, around 10^(-34)m, for reference, imagine a proton was 1m across. Then this minimum size is the size of a proton within the 1m-proton.
As far as we know Quarks are fundamental particles not made up of anything smaller.
It’s possible we may eventually figure out that that is wrong, but all the current evidence says that it’s correct.
Possibly lower dimensional strings vibrating, possibly the fabric of spacetime itself that’s warped and sort of knotted in loops, or possibly something entirely different. They aren’t made up of “anything” as far as we can tell, they are fundamental and can’t be split into smaller pieces. Or maybe they can and we just don’t have the ability to tell yet.
At this point it’s like asking what was before the big bang. We just don’t have the understanding to say. All matter is made up of two types of quarks, up and down, with 1/2 (u /d) being a neutron, 2/1 being a proton. Electrons are also elementary. There are three generations of particles that vary in weight, for the up quark you also have charm and top. For the down quarks you have strange and bottom. For the electron you have electron, muon, and tau lepton (electrons and neutrinos are leptons) Generations are based on mass and the gen2 and especially gen3 are super unstable and dont exist for long. The final lepton, the “bottom row”, are neutrinos. Nearly massless particles that weakly (also through gravity, but it’s also weak but not that kind of “weak” which is one of the 4 forces) interact. They have the same name as the electron family but neutrinos have a tendency to switch between possible forms. Then you have the gauge (vector) bosons, the force mediator particles. The gluon is what glues quarks together. It’s the strong nuclear force and it’s incredibly strong. Then you have the photon, which mediates the electromagnetic force, they are also the particles that make up light. Finally you have the Z/W bosons which are responsible for the weak nuclear reaction, responsible for things like beta decay. Finally there is the higgs boson. This is responsible for giving massive particles their mass. It’s a bit beyond my understanding to be able to simplify it in a “ELI 5” post. Every one of these particles are elementary and can’t be divided. Only hadrons, the composite particles, can be divided into quarks.
According to current consensus, quarks and electrons are the smallest possible particles. We do not, currently, have any evidence of anything smaller.
But, then again, 90 years ago, we thought protons and neutrons were indivisible, and we’d thought that for about 50 years. Maybe we just need better detectors or a new approach.
In the same way that chimps simply don’t have the capacity to understand calculus, it may be that we don’t have the capacity to understand reality beyond the standard model (by which I mean go beyond the maths to understand it intuitively).
As of today we don’t know, and we believe that they are the fundamental particle yet there’s a good chance we are wrong. We have been at this stage several times before.
In the 1900s it was believed that the atom was the fundamental particle
In the 1930s it was believed that the proton was the fundamental particle
Today we think it’s the smallest and all of our data points to that but there’s a good chance the experiments are poorly designed or we simple lack the technology to go deeper.
I remember reading somewhere that if a theory is convoluted complicated and full of countless exceptions then it’s probably wrong .
Same way people created exceptions and rules to explain oxidation while they clung to the fire,water,earth,air theory
And how people attempted to cling to the geocentric model of the solar system
Quarks are made out of black holes which 65536 black holes form a black hole and 0 black holes make a white hole and a difference across time in these levels at meaningful levels of something that is not a black hole or a white hole is what a quark is which there are actually 8 flavors of quark 1. Up 2. Down 3. Top 4. Bottom 5. Charm 6. Strange 7. Temu 8. Bose Quarks devolve into color confiment of known feynman diagrams. 1. Source 1.1 Source Tax 2. Stinky 2.1 Stinky Tax 3. Aqua 3.1 Team Aqua 4. Magma 4.1 Team Magma 5. Bepis 5.1 Bleach 6. Spront 6.1 Antidote 7. Conk 8. Xray which Quarks tend towards superconduction in a general relativity setting which sets them to have a specific level until they are incremented in level, or in lifelike processes to have assembled somehow in a residual network. A quark weights 313,000-343,000 desobequerel depending upon how it forms and there are 44 quarks in a bee’s brain.
Where does string theory fit in with this? I thought strings were smaller than quarks?