Could Quarks Revolutionize Transistor Technology?

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The discussion centers on the feasibility of using quarks instead of electrons for transistors in electronics. It highlights that while metals provide free electrons for current flow, quarks cannot be isolated due to color confinement, meaning they are always found within hadrons and cannot be controlled independently. Additionally, it is noted that electrons are fundamentally smaller than quarks, with a single electron being about one-fifth the size of the smallest quark. The challenges of confinement and the lack of a pool of free quarks that could be utilized in electronic circuits are significant barriers to this concept.
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Would it be possible to make quark Transistors to accelerate Moore's law?
Instead of electron transistors why not go smaller particles like quarks?
 
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Metals have plenty of free electrons that we use for electronics today.
Where is there a pool of free quarks that we might be able to control, which will not react with each other or their container?
 
Confinement would demand very very small circuits.......
 
There is another form of confinement that will be a bit of a problem.
Wikipedia says; "Owing to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, ..."

Also; Electrons are smaller than quarks. However, quarks vary in size. A single electron is about 1/5th the size of a very small quark. So all electrons are smaller than all quarks.
 

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