Does the quark know what time it is?

First we must ask, what is a thing?
We all believe that we travel thought time...its seems a priori knowledge. If we were adrift somehow in the void of space, we would still "feel" time...we "aged".
What do we mean by aged?
We experience time by aging; that is the growth and decay or our bodied as we mature to adult hood and decay into death. As our skins cells divide, grow and die. In fact if one did not do this, if one were somehow exempt form aging. If ones body did not change, the term ageless or timeless would be appropriate. If we further added, that, as stated earlier, that we were floating in the void of space, not only were we ageless but our experience would also be devoid of time. One would say that, if such a condition where "eternal" or never changed...perhaps could never change, the idea of time would be at least meaningless and at most shown, in this mental universe, nonexistent.

Now that we have established that (to what ever assuredly) lets look deeper.

Are you a thing or are you, more or less, a particular collection of atoms? A collection of atoms.

So, although one might say "YOU" change with time, does the atoms that compose you, do they age?
Is the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, et all "older" at death than at your birth?

Well let’s say that the electrons that form your atoms move, cosmic radiation may cause atoms to break apart and decay and that is a form of "aging"

What about the Quarks that make up the atomic partials? As far as science knows, they can not change; there are the ageless in the sense of our earlier thought experiment.

What about the world they exist in?