Ambitwitsor thankyou for your patient and very precise answers to what I realise came across as naive questions.
I don’t really understand electromagnetism, strong, weak, gravity, or spin. However I know a little bit about each, and have since found the standard model chart from CPEPweb.org...
I’ve been trying to find specifics about quarks and gluons, and it seems like not a lot is known.
If I’ve got things right Up quarks have a speculated mass between 1.5 and 4.5 MeV, and Down quarks a speculated mass of between 5 and 8.5 MeV. Gluons are considered to be massless. A proton is...