ABSTRACT
The charged partons are quarks. Most of previous assumptions were guided, or the authors thought they were guided by field theory or considerations based on high energy experiments. The arguments leading to the conclusion are not obviated by the fact that the partons do not have integral quantum numbers. Supposing for a moment this is done, then the next serious question will become theoretical - what exactly is the relation of the quark qualities at high energy and those at low energy. The "partons as quarks" model does not imply the low energy model nor vice versa. In turning into final hadrons various bundles of quarks go together to make legitimate hadron quantum numbers. From the point of view the partons would appear as an unnecessary scaffolding that was used in building our house of cards.
