In general, baryons consist of three quarks and mesons of one quark and its corresponding antiquark. |
Must be because our mesons and quarks and stuff are linked, like the way you can see me even though I'm not really here. |
There is the almost impossibly small world of gluons and mesons and quarks, but also the infinitely vast cosmological field strewn with uncountable galaxies. |
Most particles are either mesons, which contain a quark and an antiquark, or baryons, which comprise three quarks or three antiquarks. |
Quarks are permanently bound together into protons, neutrons and mesons. |
The simplest hadrons are therefore mesons made from a quark and antiquark pair, and baryons made of three quarks. |