What is the difference between quarks and photons?

Question

Also, how do two photons stay together to form an electron? (These are questions asked by a four year old, so, appropriate landuage, please). Thanks.

Answer 1

quarks make up photons,and quarks make up all other sub-atomic particles and exotic matter.and quarks are complicated, idont know how to explain it lol, let me think and il edit this answer ok? or u can e-mail me if u want, [e-mail].

Answer 2

From what I understand, quarks are the 'pieces' of protons and neutrons (like blocks), which make up the nucleus (center) of atoms. In an atom, the nucleus is in the middle and it's surrounded by a cloud of electrons flying around it. There are six different kinds of quarks, and they all have different mass (weight) and electric charge (I'm not sure how to explain positive and negative charge to a 4 year old, best bet is to use a magnet and show them that opposites attract).

Photons don't form electrons. Photons are little packets of energy. Think of a photon as a tiny bit of light (any kind of light, not just the light you can see, light includes microwaves and radio waves, and ultra violet rays and gamma rays). Photons have energy but no mass, they weigh nothing.

The websites below has a bit more info, but these things are very difficult to explain to a 4 year old.

Answer 3

A big difference, first of all, is mass.
Photons are considered "massless" by most physicists. They are light particles, but they are pure energy.
Quarks are subatomic particles, with various fractional charges of either +/- 1/3 or +/- 2/3. There are 6 different types, that differ by their mass. They combine in groups of 3 to create a positively charged proton or a neutrally charged neutron. Their counterparts are leptons. There are six types of leptons as well. One type of lepton is an electron, the negatively charged particle that is easy to move from atom to atom. (a good example here would be rubbing across the carpet, and then touching a doorknob to see a discharge, or transfer of electrons.)

An easy way to think of this is that quarks are communial creatures, like herds of deer or such. Leptons prefer to be alone, like some wild cats.

Answer 4

Quraks are the elementary particles that constite the nucleus of an atom. They possess 1/3 charge.
Photons are basically paricles that constitue electromagnetic radiation. The electromagnetic spectrum covers a wide photon frequency range. Depending on the photon frequency, the photon radiation is classifed as cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, UV, visible, Infrared and radio waves. However, most of the phenomena in physics, can be understood well, if we consider the electromagnetic radiation in the form of wave.

Answer 5

quarks are those little idiosyncracies that make us unique
a photon are those things digital cameras take ...

no...wait ...

a quark is one of the basic constituents of matter (leptons are the other one, i think. don't quote me)

photons make up electromagnetic fields. when they shoot through matter different frequencies are sent at different speeds. it's like a prismic thing.

i'm sure there are equations, but hang me if i know any of them. i'm relying on high school physics here and that was some time ago.

a four year old, you say. i'm feeling awfully stupid right about now.

Answer 6

Photon is what produces the light.Quarks is the element that electrons protons and neutrons are made up of not photons.

Answer 7

a 4 year old asked this? wow... im short of words. where did he even hear these words.

well proton is a proton. its positive. sticks with a negative, called neutron. or was it electron lol. sad

anyway a quark is the thign which is smaller than an atom. its like what atoms are made of.