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ELI5: Quark names.

Why are they named as they are? Top, and bottom, up and down feel similar but strange and charm sound crazy in comparison. 

Why do they have the names they do and where does strange and charm come from?
gpt
Up and down quarks are named for their spin. 

Top and bottom quarks were named because they compliment up and down quarks. So the names were chosen to reflect that. They were once called truth and beauty (respectively for top and bottom). Those names never really caught on. Beauty lasted longer than truth did, though. 

Strange quarks exhibit strangeness. Which is a term that has been used longer than we've known about quarks. The term has to do with how long it takes for a particle to decay through strong/weak interactions. Basically, they're "strange" because of the seemingly usually long time it takes for them to decay. 

The charm quark was simply named on a whim. Sheldon Glashow and James Bjorken (the guys who theorized their existence) were charmed by the symmetry the particle exhibits.