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What are quarks name?

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The quark model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Man and George Zweig in 1964. Gell-Mann originally named the quark after the sound made by ducks. For some time, he was undecided on an actual spelling for the term he intended to coin, until he found the word quark in James Joyce's book, Finnegan's Wake

Three quarks for Muster Mark!

Sure he has not got much of a bark

And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

-James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Gell-Mann went into further detail regarding the name of the quark in his book The Quark and the Jaguar:

In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork". Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark". Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of the gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark", as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork". But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau" words in "Through the Looking-Glass". From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark", in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.

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There are 6 'normal' quarks in total.

First Generation:

- Up Quark

- Down Quark

Second Genaration:

- Strange Quark

- Charm Quark

Third Generation:

- Bottom Quark

- Top Quark

All of these Quarks have anti-particles like the Antidown Quark.

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