Re: What are "elementary particles?"

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

> At the present time, do physicists think that ALL
> of matter including leptons, are composed of quartks?

Herb,

I'd suggest that you perform a Google search using keywords like

 "standard model" quark lepton

You will be rewarded with thousands of sites that can answer your
questions far more completely and clearly than anyone on phys-l
will be likely to have time for.  Here's just one example:

 <http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/documentation/EDUC/physics3.html>

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm