What is kwarki?

Quarks are elementary particles that are classified as fermions, which means that they have half-integer spin. They are the smallest known particles and cannot be broken down into smaller components. Quarks come in six varieties, known as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom. Each flavor of quark has a corresponding antiparticle with opposite charge.

Quarks are the building blocks of protons and neutrons, which make up the nucleus of an atom. Protons are made up of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons are made up of one up quark and two down quarks. Quarks are held together by the strong nuclear force, which is mediated by particles called gluons.

Quarks were first proposed as fundamental particles in the 1960s by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig. Their existence was confirmed by experiments in the 1970s, and the Standard Model of particle physics was developed to describe their behavior. Quarks are an essential component of the Standard Model, which describes the behavior of all known elementary particles.