TOPOLOGICAL BOOTSTRAP PREDICTION OF 3-COLORED 8-FLAVORED QUARKS [electronic resource].
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Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1980. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
We describe a topological bootstrap theory of strong interactions that generates baryon number, 3 colors and spin-1/2 confined "quarks" with 8 flavors. Extension to electromagnetism allows the topological objects called "quarks" to be associated with leptons, so 8 leptons are predicted.