[BiffWondercat]

When did Leptons jump into this? I am not friggin Mr science here. Last I followed this series - Protons, neutrons, electrons and their anti-matter mirrors, were composed of quarks which in turn consisted of smaller "strings" which may exist in multi-dimensional manifolds and....

I'm sorry, I have no idea what a Leprechaun is....

[VadeRetro]

So far as we know now, electrons are fundamental, like quarks themselves. But while electrons aren't made of quarks, I seem to have misused the term "lepton."

Here's a good glossary of particle terms. We can race to see who gets it right first.