I usually stop dissecting the universe at hadrons and leptons. Everything you touch or see is the result of leptons (and photons), everything that has weight is hadrons.
Once you go beyond that into quarks, strings, Planck vortex instabilities...then you start to go way beyond what you can see and touch, you need county-sized accelerators to collect the data and try to make sense of it.
I like to listen to people talk about that stuff, but me actually understanding it is like my dog actually understanding what my computer does. ;)