A Crackpot's Vision of Future Physics: Quarks

Quarks are hard.  Really, really hard.  I don't understand them at more than a superficial level; I don't know anybody who does.  The math is notoriously difficult, and the philosophy appears nearly nonexistent, limited largely to naming the phenomena the math predicts.  So this section is going to be wrong in a lot more ways than normal.

First, my suspicions: Quarks are extremely complex configurations of an absurdly large number of smaller particles, typically called gluons, across six phases of our mass wave.  Which is to say, three pairs of attractive and repulsive phases of the wave, corresponding roughly to what in chromodynamics is referred to as "color".  There are both matter and antimatter configurations, although that is an incomplete description, because I think all the configurations are composed of both matter and antimatter in part.  Because these configurations are larger than a single phase of the gravity wave, you get an interlocking behavior we don't see much of at larger scales until you get to molecules, in which the different phases of the mass wave are, at a comprehensive scale, often in opposition; pull on opposing ends of a quark and there's a lot of give to it, stretching it out, as the conflicting waves give a stretchiness to the underlying behavior until they are no longer in conflict; at which point an abrupt and massive increase in the energy required to continue stretching occurs, no longer assisted by the conflicting wave patterns, beyond which the quark will "snap" in half.  So much energy that new particles will be created to fill in the gaps.

We see this behavior; it is only the description of the phenomena that differs.  Behavioral particulars aren't really addressed here except to say that they're complex, because the particles are complex.