What Are Quarks?

Answer 1

In particle physics, quarks are subatomic particles thought to be elemental and indivisible. They are one of the two kinds of spin-½ fermions (the other being the leptons). Objects made up of quarks are known as hadrons; well known examples are protons and neutrons.

Answer 2

Quarks are pretty cool. They are considered elementary particles (yes quarks and not atoms!). You have 6 quarks; up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Without getting into any nasty details. They combine to form neutrons and protons. They dont have integer charges (counting numbers) they have 3rd charges i.e. 1/3, 2/3, -1/3, and -2/3 charges.

So quarks combine to form basic particles of matter. They have some pretty strange properties too. Like their charge has to be naught or an integer charge and you have to combine 2 or 3 quarks. Each quark has 3 different flavors. Go online and study htem, its not terribly complicated.

Answer 3

A Quark has it's scientific definition, and Quark is also a bartender in the Star Trek series known as Deep Space Nine.

Answer 4

Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. (The others are leptons.) Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks and antiquarks are the only fundamental particles that interact through all four of the fundamental forces.

The single most important property of quarks is called confinement. This is the experimentally determined fact that except for the top quark, which decays too rapidly, individual quarks are not seen — they are always confined inside subatomic particles called hadrons, such as protons, neutrons, and mesons. This fundamental property is expected to follow from the modern theory of strong interactions, called quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Although there is no mathematical derivation of confinement in QCD, it is easy to show using lattice gauge theory.
for more details on quarks click on the below link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarks

Answer 5

quark: basic component of particles.

Answer 6

a short lived particle

Answer 7

it's an interstellar bar on DSN

Answer 8

i have no idea if this is right or not but :

http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/quarks.html