Are there thirty theoretical first generation particles/antiparticles? Braid standard model gave me this idea.

Answer 1

There are 30 total elementary particles in the Standard Model, and that includes 3 Generations of particle/anti-particle fermions:

Generation 1 -
Electron, Electron neutrino, Positron, Electron antineutrino,
Up quark, Down quark, Anti-up antiquark, Anti-down antiquark

Generation 2 -
Muon, Muon neutrino, Anti-Muon, Muon antineutrino,
Charm quark, Strange quark, Anti-charm antiquark,
Anti-strange antiquark

Generation 3 -
Tau lepton, Tau neutrino, Anti-Tau, Tau antineutrino,
Top quark, Bottom quark, Anti-top antiquark,
Anti-bottom antiquark

Bosons:
Photon, gluon, W+ boson, W- boson, Z boson, graviton

To answer your question that you emailed me:

Message: Wierd that there are 30 total counting all three generations.

I was actually thinking of all the possibilities for first generation particles, including color, spin, charge, ect. I read recently about a braid standard model which when you go through all the combinations totals 30 for the first-generation alone. For example six top quarks: red,blue,green,cyan,yellow, and purple.

Answer: The three "colors" of quark are: red, blue, green. There is no cyan, yellow, and purple. Please don't confuse "quark colors" with real colors. Quark colors are just labeling schemes to describe a certain property of quarks, and this property does NOT make a new particle. An "Up blue" quark is still an Up quark. A red Down quark is still a Down quark.

Similarly, a photon can have a right-handed or left-handed polarization, but we don't say there are two types of photons, right-handed and left-handed. We just say that photons have two polarizations. (See http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s9-04/9-04.htm for more details)

Answer 2

Maybe.