been thinkin bout quarks and the Trinity

"What are quarks?" you ask. Well, quarks are part of a model that describes matter very well. Most of you have surely heard of protons and neutrons and electrons I hope. When i was a child I was led to believe that these were the smallest elements of matter that existed, and I was content. "When I was a child, I thought like a child..." Also, my middle school science teachers probably weren't reading physics journal articles, but rather old high school science texts, so I forgive them.
Im not here to give you a lecture on the quark model. Consult the link on the title if you care to dabble. Im just here to philosophize about some properties of quarks that I find to be pretty interesting. First of all, there are 6 types of quarks. (12 if you include their anti-partical counterparts) They are called Up, Down, Strange, Charm, Top, and Bottom, and I believe that they have all been observed by now (which was not the case when I was an undergrad-- only 4 years ago). The most ordinary nucleons (protons and neutrons) are made up of only up and down quarks. The proton is up up down, and the neutron is up down down. The property that interest me for philosophical reasons is the property that wikipedia calls "confinement". The layman's definition of confinment, as I understand it would be that a quark cannot exist by itself. It must exist with its counterparts, or with at least one other quark. Its been descibed like old lovers... if you try to seperate them, they exert an enormous attraction to each other which otherwise you don't see.
I often think about philosophical things that are religious in nature, and I'm something like a scientist, so forgive me for thinking of something that must be quite a stretch, especially for people who actually know what they are talking about from either of these fields (science or philosophy). I was wondering what it means for something in nature to exist in such a way that that it is effectively one thing but is best described by three different parts. The proton is the best example. It is ultra stable. If it does decay into something else, we haven't seen it do so yet. Protons, as I said before are ( at the moment) best described as composed of two up quarks and one down quark. It is at the very least interesting to me that something so fundamental in nature could be analogous to a concept like the Trinity-- that of One God with three persons, or in the scientific language, a singular entity that is best described by three seperate things that are inseperable. At this time, I treat the similarity of the numbers as a coincidence without signifigance, however, it was probably helpful that the numbers were the same in order for me to make the connection. As for myself, i find it to be a beautiful similarity (if it is a good one at all) between the natural and the supernatural. There may be more meaning within, or not. I'd like to entertain the possiblity that understanding more about one could enhance understanding of the other. (in reality, the quark model will probably be replaced in some time and the links would break down). who knows...? (perhaps more later).