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Originally Posted by MacScuba
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He does, as far as he could. But he passed in 1988, and A LOT has happened since then. He only knew of three quarks: up, down and strange. The Higgs boson wasn't discovered until 2013, although Peter Higgs et al put forth the theory in 1964. The LNC at CERN wasn't quite on the drawing board. The mechanism by which the weak force mediated by the W and Z bosons could change the flavor of quarks was unknown. Nonetheless, it is a pretty good starting point