What are quarks made of? What are the things that make up quarks made of? How far down does it go?
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Quarks are as small as things can go as far as matter is concerned. They are comparable to photons (and electrons), but with their own quantum field instead of the electromagnetic field and no crazy speeds. And just like photons, they act like both a particle and a wave. You can’t split up a photon in any way either, because it’s not really a thing, we only see its effects (the waves).
I believe that’s also where the current knowledge of physics ends. Gravity is the final ‘force’ to still be not entirely understood, and finding out how it fits in this quantum world will definitely be Nobel Price-worthy. The next step is finding out what those waves actually consist of, string theory is the most known theory in that area.
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