Just like the particles, quark also comes in various flavors.
One of Joyce’s everpresent working force in the Wake is, as he wrote there, “the abnihilisation of the etym.”
Ironically enough a shared interest with yours, I believe.
Also, the thread was just fine originally in GQ.
Oh, and knock yourself out, if you want to, with this, which is nonsense as science but has but good excerpts and glosses:
Gell-Mann himself says he took the term from Joyce. Originally, there were only three known quarks (top, bottom, and strange, I think), so why wonder if it came from cheese. Now Joyce may have gotten it from cheese. Certainly in 1967 when I spent 6 months there they were selling a soft curd cheese and calling it quark. You can buy a soft curd cheese in Montreal called quark (as my wife did this morning).