were discovered because technology had improved. We saw more trails occur when particles collided which reveals new particles. Over 300 particles have been found, many existing for only a brief period of time, such a fraction of a second. In 1063, Murray, Gill, and Mann proposed that most of the unstable particles, along with the protons and neutrons are composed of a more fundamental particle called the quark. At first they thoought there were three quarks, but found out later there were actually six. They make up most of the 300 particles that we know of with the exception of a few. The building blocks of matter are quarks and Leptons, and there are six of each. Hadrons are Baryons and Mesons, and they are composed of quarks. A baryon is matter composed of three quarks, and an example of this would be a proton and a neutron. Mesons are formed from a quark plus antiquark. leptons are the leftovers which are electrrons, muons, tau, and three neutrinos. The electron is the most stable of the six.Visual particles take the form of waves. We can not detect them, but we can see their effects. When light acts as a wave it is virtual particle called a photon. There are four forces of nature that make virtual particles exist are gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear. Gravity is thge weakest of the four forces. It effects all known particles, and is always attractive, so we can see it carried by gravitons which range infinite. It is a small scale inside of a nucleus. A photon is the virtual particle for the force of electromagnetism. This is the next to the weakest force, and it interacts with everything that has a charge. It is massless, or we have not detected it yet, and because it is massless it has infinite range. Electromagnetism also allows particles to be bonded. When two electrons pass close to each other, they give off light. The strong nuclear force is the strongest of the forces. This bin...
