I just wanted to try my hand at the quarks using the time rate variation model... I found it to work quite well within the simple first generation quarks / leptons. In the attached image file I have the structures of the electron, positron, proton, neutron, neutrino and anti-neutrino with rules to go. I have the proton electron capture process and the process of conversion of the neutron to a proton electron and neutrino.
Rules are simple:
1) Conservation of structures except for neutrinos..
2) Neutrino and anti-neutrino appear out of nothing (maybe a nudge ) and, consequently, they cancel out to nil. They are very useful mediator of transformation.
3) Causality of movement and time rate variations do work except for the neutron (the beast!)
4) The up and down quarks refer to the sign of the slope of the time rate variations.
Here no reference to mass, length etc. "time" only as time rate below and above a local baseline. In the case where "energy" would be of concern, the period T of the variation would be considered; the shorter the T, the bigger the power and "energy".
Finally, the neutron is a problem! The causality structure for motion point inversely from what the time rate variations indicate!! Top right of the image... Causality points toward the left but the slopes (arrows) indicate a variation that would result from motion toward the right! I tried various tweaks... The only tweak correcting the situation is time reversal!! (time imploding instead of exploding) . Time reversal would change all the slope signs and give a particle d-u-u ( read from the front of the structure) with the proper direction, matching the causality structure. And, I don't even address the three dimensional structure of these particle rotating...yet.
Other weird structures... e-neutrino is u-u and e-anti-neutrino is d-d.... All fun and games for now...
Marcel,Attachment #1: Wave_time_Quarks_.jpg