My final project for SPU 20... Lyrics: I am the very model of a modern quantum theory quark, I make up everything you know from minerals to Tony Stark Think of the smallest thing you can, I'm smaller than an atom's parts To understand me, Harvard kid, you'll have to use all of your smarts Let's start off with the basics, you know atoms are the building blocks Inside the atom, protons, neutrons, and electrons, not a shock But let's go smaller, shall we, to the really fundamental bits To quarks, force carriers, and leptons, see what you can make of it. Let's start with quarks, they're particles, not characters from DS9 There are six flavors, they're in pairs, know all of them and you'll be fine There's up and down, and charm and strange, and top and bottom, that's all six These particles are fundamental, take that with an asterisk Now quarks have charge, but here's the thing, that charge is not an integer For up and charm and top, just know it is a positive two thirds For down and strange and bottom it's one third but it is negative. For each of these the anti version's charge is plus or minus switched. Quarks come in hadrons only, these are little groups of two or three The groups of two and three are mesons, baryons respectively A proton is a baryon, a neutron is a baryon But a quark and anti-quark's a meson, now it's time to carry on Now on to leptons, you'll find there are only six of those to see Each neutrino and matching lepton make up lepton families The negative 1 <b>...</b>
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