Can Quarks Exist Outside Of Mathematical Models?

Proponents would say the supposed discovery of quark-gluon plasmas proves they exist in the real world of nature.

However, regarding the putative “quark-gluon” plasma “evidence”, theoreticians predicted that it would behave like a weakly interacting gas. The RHIC observational evidence says this prediction was WRONG.

The plasma, much to the surprise of theoretical physicists behaved like a *strongly interacting fluid*, which is much more like what Discrete Scale Relativity anticipates. Of course, given time the theoretical physicists “adjusted” their model to fit the new data, and now they see it as more confirmation of the “quark” hypothesis. Another epicycle in their Ptolemaic models?