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 elastic scatter.
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 We found that protons aren't as simple as 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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 But that is what a quark is; It's a piece of a proton,
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 And they also make up other things including the neutron.
 
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 Oh, up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
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 If you don't know what a quark is, it don't matter you still got 'em.
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 And with leptons and bosons, unless something's 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 physicists call hadrons.
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 Many types of 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, color charge, mass and spin,
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 And having color charge means they exist solely inside of
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 Other kinds of particles and cannot exist alone.
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 Which is why quarks have never been studied on their own.
 
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 Up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
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 If you don't know what a quark is, it don't matter you still got 'em.
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 And with leptons and bosons, unless something's amiss,
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 They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists.
 
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 Quarks can join together in two different ways,
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 Baryons and Mesons, but most instantly decay.
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 If a particle has three quarks, then it's a baryon,
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 If there's one quark and and anti-quark, then it is a meson.
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 These tiny bits of matter are a part of almost everything
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 And there is no unified theory to make it less confusing.
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 But the fact that we've identified that they exist at all
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 Is so god damn remarkable that I just sit in awe.
 
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 Oh, up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
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 If you don't know what a quark is, it don't matter you still got 'em.
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 And with leptons and bosons, unless something's amiss,
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 They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists.
 
 I hope you enjoyed!
 DFTBA and best wishes,
 Trey