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Jainism : The Eternal and Universal path for Enlightenment
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sixty particles make the whole Universe. To this may be added graviton, the anticipated carrier of gravitational field, not yet discovered.
The six types of quarks are named as up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm. But "up" does not mean up in the colloquial sense, nor "bottom" means bottom but they are just names. All the names mean is that they are different from each other. Like wise they have been given quantum numbers called colour and flavour, which have nothing to do with their literal meaning. Colour actually means a type of force and flavour means another attribute. So when we say a quark has a colour (usually red, yellow or blue) it simply means that they experience a kind of force, called the "strong" force but to a different degree because they are different, i.e. have different attributes. Similarly gluons do have different flavours again meaning different attributes. What these attributes are in the context of common sense is debatable or rather inexpressible.
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Fig. 7.2 The double slit experiment showing that photons (or electrons) act as particles when they are observed by particle detectors (D), giving the characteristic spots on the photographic plate (above), and waves when they go unobserved (below) giving rise to the well known interference pattern due to waves, proving the duality of behaviour of elementary particles.
