Why Generations of Matter?

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The question then arises, if we almost never observe the higher generations of matter particles in our universe, why do they exist at all? Indeed, when the muon () was discovered in 1936, the physicist I.I. Rabi asked,
Who ordered THAT?

Without understanding why the second and third generation particles exist, we cannot rule out the possibility that there are more quarks and leptons, with yet larger masses. Possibly, the answer could be that quarks and leptons aren't fundamental, but are made up of yet more elementary particles whose interactions manifest as the different generations of matter.


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