Fermion
Meson
Hadron
Lepton
Boson
Baryon
Hyperon
Nucleon
Tachyon
Luxon
Parton
Tardyon

What the heck do all of the above terms mean?!

Some are particle names and some are physic class vocabularies :
Here my personal physic vocabulary list
http://www.theinterpretersfriend.com/tech/...vl/physics.html
Hope this help

Fermion - a descriptive name for particles that will not occupy the same energy level. This includes protons, neutrons, and electrons.

Boson - a descriptive name for particles that will occupy the same energy level. This includes photons, gluons, and the weak force carriers - the W and Z bosons.

Baryon - an atomic particle made of three quarks.

Meson - an atomic pariticle made of a quark and an anti-quark (the quark and anti-quark are not the same color(up, down, strange, etc.), otherwise they would annihilate each other).

Lepton - the group of particles that includes the electron, muon, and tau.

Nucleon - a particle that normally resides in the nucleus of an atom.

Tachyon - a theoreticle particle that can travel faster than the speed of light.

Those are the ones I know...

Here is a great website for learning about the particles. It was set up for 11th graders and up. Maybe a bit childish, but I found it very informative.

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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I've seen it before - last year, when I was in ninth grade. I found a different site that does more than expected, however. Y'all might wanna check it out:
www.site.uottawa.ca:4321/astronomy/tree.html
(Sorry I didn't put in a hyperlink)

Enjoy!