I don't know much about quarks. What i've gradually learned is that there's pretty much two kinds, up and down, which make up every proton and neutron. There's a bunch of other ones which they've theorized and then found in particle accelerators, but up and down (in three 'colors') are the ones that are stable and around.  But when you're just looking into it on wikipedia they don't really let on to this, which makes basic quantum physics more difficult to understand than it should be: "Here's eighteen quarks and their antiquarks and a bunch of leptons and gluons and shit". I realize it's important to gather as much information as you can about the formation of the universe (for the sake of completeness, akin to a chemist discovering if element 118 is a noble gas like it should be), but it would really help if they just had a paragraph of introduction explaining that 90% of it has nothing to do with anything.

That is, unless the field of particle physics is just the world's biggest $600 hammer, and everyone's in on it. I could see that.

Also charm and strange should be high and low for the sake of regularity, but hey. Strange = down-type, I guess I can remember that.