eli5 difference between quarks and gluons
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Gluons are force particles, like photons. Bosons. (although they have properties that make them behave differently from photons). They meditate the strong force.
They glue the quarks together. The quarks are the elementary particles that make up the larger particles we see: protons, neutrons, mesons and others of their family. Note, that family doesn’t include electrons or neutrinos, those are different.
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