<IMG SRC="navi.gif" WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=440 usemap="#navi" BORDER=0> What is the World Made of?     Matter Summary

Now we know of what the world is made. The most fundamental matter particles are the six quarks and the six leptons.

Well, it is a bit more complicated than that. Remember that we never find isolated quarks, we only observe them in composite particles called hadrons. And there is an antimatter particle for every matter particle.