Why quarks come in flavors like strange and charm

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Physicists apparently ran out of cool names, so they decided to label the fundamental building blocks of reality with culinary terms. Quarks, the tiny particles that make up protons, come in six 'flavors' including up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. They have absolutely nothing to do with taste, making it arguably the most disappointing menu in the known universe.

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