Hank Green - Strange Charm

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a quark is a fundamental constituent of matter

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observed in 1968 through deep electric scatter

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we found that protons were more complex than we thought

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we thought they were solid particles but they are not

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protons in fact are made up of three separate pieces

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it just gets more confusing as our knowledge increases

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and that is what a quark is; its a piece of a proton

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and they also make up other things including the neutron

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if you dont know what a quark is it doesnt matter , you still got Em

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and with leptons and bosons unless somethings amiss

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they make up everything that we can see and that we know exists

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things made up of quarks including protons and neutrons

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are composite particles that physicist call hadrons

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many times those hadrons are theoretically described

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but most exist for only very brief amounts of time

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quarks have electric charge , colour charge , mass and spin

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and having colour charge means they exist solely in side

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other kinds of particles that cannot exist alone

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which is why quarks have never been studied on their own

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if you dont know what a quark is it doesnt matter , you still got Em

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and with leptons and bosons unless somethings amiss

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they make up everything that we can see and that we know exists

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these tiny bits of matter are part of almost everything

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there is no unified theory to make it less confusing

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but the fact that weve identified that they exist at all

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is so remarkable that i Am constantly in awe

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if you dont know what a quark is it doesnt matter , you still got Em

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and with leptons and bosons unless somethings amiss

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they make up everything that we can see and that we know exists