Up
and
down
are
the lightest
quarks.
Whoa,
I’d better
start taking
notes. This
could be
some really
good stuff
for the
comic.
There are also
strange
,
charm
,
bottom
, and
top
quarks.
That
makes
six
flavors.
Up and down
quarks are in
protons and
neutrons. What about the
other four? Do they just hang
out somewhere in outer space?
Those guys don’t hang out
ANYWHERE--not anymore, anyway. Experts
think they were around for a short time
after the big bang. Scientists have even
made them in the lab, but as soon
as they do . . .
. . .
poof!
The
quarks transform
into other
particles.
The ultimate
transformers.
Yeah.
in physicist-speak,
the particles
decay
into other
particles.
