Hank Green - Strange Charm

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0a quark is a fundamental constituent of matter
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1Observed in 1968 through deep elastic scatter.
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2We found that protons aren't as simple as we thought.
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3We thought they were solid particles but they are not.
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6Protons in fact are made up of three separate pieces.
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7It just gets more confusing as our knowledge increases.
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8But that is what a quark is; It's a piece of a proton,
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9And they also make up other things including the neutron.
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12Oh, up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
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13If you don't know what a quark is, it don't matter you still got 'em.
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14And with leptons and bosons, unless something's amiss,
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15They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists.
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18Things made up of quarks including protons and neutrons
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19Are composite particles that physicists call hadrons.
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20Many types of hadrons are theoretically described,
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21But most exist for only very brief amounts of time.
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24Quarks have electric charge, color charge, mass and spin,
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25And having color charge means they exist solely inside of
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26Other kinds of particles and cannot exist alone.
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27Which is why quarks have never been studied on their own.
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30Up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
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31If you don't know what a quark is, it don't matter you still got 'em.
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32And with leptons and bosons, unless something's amiss,
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33They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists.
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36Quarks can join together in two different ways,
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37Baryons and Mesons, but most instantly decay.
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38If a particle has three quarks, then it's a baryon,
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39If there's one quark and and anti-quark, then it is a meson.
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40These tiny bits of matter are a part of almost everything
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41And there is no unified theory to make it less confusing.
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42But the fact that we've identified that they exist at all
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43Is so god damn remarkable that I just sit in awe.
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46Oh, up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
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47If you don't know what a quark is, it don't matter you still got 'em.
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48And with leptons and bosons, unless something's amiss,
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49They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists.
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