<IMG SRC="navi.gif" WIDTH=160 HEIGHT=440 usemap="#navi" BORDER=0> What is Fundamental?     Standard Model Quiz

Question:

It is known that the 100s of particles are all made from how many fundamental particles?

Answer

6 quarks, 6 leptons, 6 antiquarks, 6 antileptons, and the force carriers.

Trivia Question:

For how many years have physicists known that there were more than just protons, neutrons, electrons, and photons? 5? 25? 60? 100?

Answer

60 years! In the 1930's physicists found neutrinos and muons, but hundreds more were found with high energy accelerators in the 1960's and 1970's.