Up Down Strange Charm Top Bottom

Okay, so it's been a couple of days since I last posted on here, mainly because I've had nothing to say of great importance or interest. So today I decided to explain where my username strangecharm comes from and how amazing our universe actually is. This started as a conversation I was having based off a great song by Hank Green called "Strange Charm" (Look it up on youtube). I'm not going to pretend I know all of the vastly complicated physics behind these things but I'm going to do my best to explain some of it, sorry if I'm not entirely correct :)

So, atoms (which have misleading names as "atom" comes from the greek for "that which cannot be divided") are made up of neutrons, protons and electrons...but what makes up them?  The answer is supposedly these fundamental pieces of matter called quarks. There are six types of quarks, called Up, Down, Strange, Charm (yes my name is two of the quarks, I'm a science nerd alright...) Top and Bottom. These quarks usually pair up together. Protons are actually made up of three different pieces (have I lost you yet?).  Well in simple terms a quark is just a piece of a proton or neutron. Physicists call things made up of quarks hadrons.  Quarks can't be alone, there is always more than one of them. If a hadron has three quarks we call it a baryon, which protons and neutrons are, and if it has a quark and an anti-quark (basically opposite of the quark) then it's called a meson.

What amazes me is the fact that these pieces of matter make up everything along with other things such as leptons and bosons (but I won't go into them now), yet are not actually made up of anything else as both they and electrons are fundamentals according to theory.... mind blown. 

And that concludes me nerdiness for this blog. Fini.