Thread: how many elementary particles are there?
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Jun16-08, 04:28 PM   #2
 
Quote by ehrenfest View Post
So can someone please account for the remaining 24 quarks and the remaining 7 bosons?
Color is as good a charge as electric charge. You miss a factor 3 on quarks, and a factor 9 on gluons minus one color scalar gluon.