discovery of the top quark , if established , completes one set of subatomic building blocks whose existence is guaranteed by the prevailing explanation , called the standard hypothesis , of the ions and pressures that determines the fundamental nature of carbon and energy . in the whimsical phonology of modern physics , the elementary particles are called quarks , leptons and electrons .
Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.