Ok folks, what proof, actual reliable proof is there that quarks exist?

Question

Can anyone here provide full, complete evidence, right here in the religious section of a yahoo forum that quarks exist?

hmm, wasn't actually expecting anyone to answer it. Okay. Moving on.

Answer 1

are you in the wrong place for this question-i think you would get a full answer in the science section-but to answer your question-yes i could-but would you understand what i told you-the fact that you are asking it here causes me to doubt that it would be possible-----just my thoughts-smile and enjoy the day

Answer 2

In the beginning a lot of people doubted that the quarks really existed and instead they maintained that the quarks where only mathematical constructions. One reason for this skepticism was that one had never observed single quarks. In order that the proton and neutron get the correct electric charge the quarks must have charges which are fractional. The u quark has the electric charge +2/3 and the d quark -1/3 in units where the electron has charge -1 and the proton +1. But no one has ever observed a particle with fractional charge. The proof that quarks really exist came in 1969 when one observed the substructure of the proton in an experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California. This discovery was later awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize. By irradiating a fixed target of protons with high energy electrons and studying how the electrons were scattered one could deduce that the proton has a substructure, the quarks.

Answer 3

You are made up of a bunch of them, do you exist?

Answer 4

You're here aren't you?

Answer 5

I CAN!

(mumble)

Answer 6

o.O