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Whereas allegedly elementary particles were known to show a great variety of rather complicated properties, the properties of quarks and leptons are extremely simple; in fact they can be compared in their simplicity to geometrical points. Also, instead of a large number of seemingly elementary hadrons, we are left today with only six essentially different quarks. And in spite of the greatest desire and effort to reduce everything to its simplest form, one cannot possibly reduce something to nothing. Thus, it seems that we have actually hit the bottom in our search for the basic elements from which matter is formed.
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Glashow, S.L. (1991). Particle Physics in the Nineties. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) Physics Up to 200 TeV. The Subnuclear Series, vol 28. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3774-8_1
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