Recent content by DaveBF

Ah, I seem to have found the answer to my poorly worded question. Most of the quarks in the universe are already in their least massive generation, and these are the ones that occur most often in nature. So I suppose the answer to my question is yes, all of the quarks are in their smallest form...

So eventually everything in the universe will have decayed into the smallest possible form, assuming the universe is still around by then? Or am I totally missing your point?

formed? I assume this has a very simple answer, I just can't seem to figure it out.

Thank you, I just really didn't know what to expect when I enrolled in the physics class, and was rather disappointed when we concentrated on calculating displacements and such. I suppose I might go into self study, although my current mathematical knowledge is rather limited. Thanks to you all

I am extremely interested in what I assume would be called particle physics. I want to learn all about basically elementary particles and their interactions, however in my high school physics course thus far we have only really gone over simple vectors and such. We aren't even learning about...