What Are Quarks? Explained In 1 Minute

Quarks are the ultimate building blocks of visible matter in the universe.
If we could zoom in on an atom in your body, we would see that it consists of electrons swarming in orbits around a nucleus of protons and neutrons. And if we could zoom in on one of those protons or neutrons, we'd find that they themselves are made up of a trio of particles that are so small that they have almost no size at all, and are little more than points. These point-like particles are the quarks.
Quarks are elementary particles. Like electrons, they are not made up of any other particles. You could say that they are on the ground floor of the Standard Model of particle physics. It turns out that there are actually six types, or flavors, of quarks in total. Besides the up, down, and strange quarks, there are also "charm", "top" and "bottom" quarks.
Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly observable matter comprises of quarks, down quarks, and electrons.
Owing to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, which include baryons (such as protons and neutrons) and mesons, or in quark-gluon plasmas. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of hadrons.
For every quark flavor, there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some of its properties (such as the electric charge) have equal magnitude but opposite signs.
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[@jeeonlyoneyear7472]

How can we say quarks are fundamental particle , some years ago we say " electron proton and neutrons are fundamental particle".

[@BandsGiddy]

True. It would be more correct to say "as far as we know"

[@amulya_asmi]

Well, Electron is still a fundamental particle of our universe's matter. It's made of nothing, and is almost massless! Although the laws of physics change in every universe, so you know yeah.

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Firstly, that’s the beauty of science, it keeps on updating itself. Secondly, the electron is still a fundamental particle (like quarks) because they have no known components or substructure (yet), while protons and neutrons are composite particles further made up of quarks held by gluons. Although hypothetical, according to many theories even quarks are made up of absolute point particles called preons.

[@greek_commie1971]

@@amulya_asmi electron is not "a fundamental particle of our universe's matter". An electronic is a fundamental particle insofar as our mind has understood it. The laws of Nature we have discovered in our mind do not perfectly correspond to the laws of Nature. And when we discover a new law or truth, it doesn't mean thay the universe created it. The universe exists as it is outside of our consciousness at all times. We shouldn't confuse what we know now with whay is always true. And we also shouldn't forget the importancd of reasoning in the face of experimental data. Both shoukd be combined and make each other stronger

[@greek_commie1971]

@@TheWorldOfScienceCo if yoire meaning to say "point particles", I don't think we should go for that approach. These sizes may be infinitesimal points for us and our knowledge now, but I don't think they're actually "points" in reality. And our knowledge can reach this reality, just like we regarded the speed of light as infinite in the past while we discovered its finite, altho earthly classical mechanics does not take it into account as such, and it does not need to

[@manofculture8666]

Electrons don't orbit an atoms nucleus like planets orbiting the Sun. They are quantum objects, whose position at any given time cannot be determined.

[@eeronat]

Let facts not get in the way of "subs"

[@bobmcdermit9857]

Electron orbitals represent regions in space where the probability of finding an electron is high.

[@leoporybernardlha3437]

Yes

[@SS-ui7by]

They aren't orbiting technically, but yes, for a layman, they are.

[@shubhamfarswan2845]

Uncertanity principle (hiesignberg )

[@youtubersdigest]

The placement of that magnifying glass was…something😂 But very good job on the video. Thanks for helping educate the world

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Glad you liked it! Thank you so much ❤️

[@reneebarguen5850]

Maybe our universe are Atoms on somethings so big that we cannot even see

[@EliotTheCat]

@Rene Ebarguen I think Might be on to something. I have a similar theory. But what if it works both ways. Not only is our universe one giant particle on a big Atom. Or just a particle Of a colossal atom Itself. And our planets and stars are the quarks. Or The Adams themselves Since they have orbits like Adams do. But what if What we know as atoms are little tiny quantum universes. And that's where the quantum realms reside. But since our universe emits light because of stars. In theory if our universe is an atom or atoms of something. Wouldn't that make that object or Entity Glow. Like an angel or deity. And if it's not living. We live in a giant holodeck simulator. That uses energy to repel and attract to simulate matter. Without the law of attraction particles are just energy not solid. You get The sense of solid from electrons pushing away from each other from other atoms. If you Can make an atom touch it will fuse into a new element.

[@443MoneyTrees]

That’s dumb

[@Sam-ux4ty]

​@@443MoneyTreesagreed.

[@Sam-ux4ty]

It can't be called atom but well the universe is constantly explaining so we could say one time the universe will be so big which the earth would just be a atom in comparison to the size of universe but yeah in comparison but our earth isn't actually one note that

[@shweta9568]

GOD

[@41PH4B3TS0UP]

You never wanna be the bottom quark

[@kato1kalin]

Dennis "Some guys are bottom quarks, and others are top quarks. This guy's a top quark. By the way we're totally cool with that. To each his own." Frank: Wait, I'm a little confused here. What's a strange quark ? Dennis: A strange quark is small and slender, like Mac. Mac: Oh no, I'm too muscular, I would be a top quark. Dennis: Ohh don't think so bro. Not hairy enough. Frank: Smooth. I would be a top quark. Dennis: No no, see I don't think you'd be a top quark either. As a matter of fact, I don't know what you would be, because you're definitely not a strange quark. Frank: I'd be a top quark, that's for sure. Mac: Can a strange quark be a top quark, or is that reserved for up quarks? Dennis: I'm sure there's a great deal of switching back and forth, but I think more often than not up quarks are tops, unless they happen to be power-bottoms quarks. Frank: What's a power-bottom quark?

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

@@kato1kalinis this really from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

[@kato1kalin]

@@bjornragnarsson8692 Yes, I just replaced some words with quark.

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

@@kato1kalin lol

[@AlextheENTP]

Unless you're into that kinda thing.

[@NatePaiva]

If quarks can be different, they must be made up of smaller parts that are different in each type. So there are smaller particles than a quark

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

When color confined at low temps. (Below 10^12 K), they tend to exist in two flavors - up and down. A proton is two up quarks and a down quark, while a neutron is two down quarks and an up quark. They are mediated by gluons, massless gauge bosons like the photon, which mediates the EM field. However, unlike photons, they are subject to the color charge, of which they have combinations of color and anti-color. Quarks carry three types of color charge (red, green, and blue). Antiquarks carry three types of anti-color (anti-red, anti-green, and anti-blue). Since gluons may be thought of as carrying both color and anti-color, there are 9 possible combinations of color and anti-color in gluons. It’s important to note that these particles aren’t actually colored. Rather it’s an effective model to describe the strong force, which has three types of charge and three types of anti-charge, making it much more complex than the electromagnetic force where there are only two types of charge for particles and their antiparticle (+/-). Quarks also carry electric charge, but in fractions. For instance, the down quark has a charge of -1/3, the top quark has charge of +2/3rds. That is why the neutron is neutral, yet has a magnetic moment (because of the quarks confined within it). Also, the top and bottom quark have very small rest masses, and due to confinement, they don’t add a lot of additional relativistic energy. Rather it is the massless gluons that make up most of the mass of hadrons like neutrons and protons. You may be wondering how that may be, but gluons, like photons, carry momentum and energy. And if you have color confinement (as in nucleons and mesons), the momentum and energy density of light speed particles (gluons) confined within a femtometer (10^-15), is equivalent to a lot of mass (relatively speaking).

[@shreeprakashsingh4630]

So those smaller particles than quarks also could be made up of the different particles, and so on.

[@jackbanks845]

String theory

[@Jurassic_Fart]

@@bjornragnarsson8692fantastic comment. Explains so much.

[@Roman-ef2ct]

​@@shreeprakashsingh4630exactly! i am new to these things but this theory was stuck in my head when i heard quarks are smallest particles. it aint true, there are more and more inside it

[@dinoklol]

Electrons don't orbit the nucleus of an atom, it is believed they are in a superposition, where they can be in any spot around the nucleus whenever they need to be. So they exist, just not in a fixed position.

[@BossPapegoja]

You don’t know what a obit is

[@dinoklol]

@@BossPapegoja well it's definitely not what an electron does around an atom lol

[@Srae17]

​@@dinoklolThey do orbit. The Schrodinger's Cloud Model simply states that the exact location of an electron is unknown, thus the cloud of probability.

[@criskooo2802]

​@@Srae17 Occupying all possible states until measured isn't actually orbiting like plantes do in space, but yeah that is just nitpicking

[@corbingrieves4505]

That's crazy. They're basically just constantly teleporting between spaces.

[@t2trix1]

Physics is so cool

[@Turnoutburndown]

I would like it if this video talked about the 'quark sea' more. There are thousands of quarks anti-quark pairs, but all of them cancel out except for 3 quarks which make the proton. The quarks are also constantly changing from annihilating themselves, and moving from energy to matter to pop into existence.

[@infinitumneo840]

This is a fascinating topic. The standard model contains the building blocks of reality.

[@FundamSrijan]

Flavours 😋😋😋

[@iamosapana8155]

We don't know the fact that we are only size like of an electron if we measured our universe outside on its core.

[@joshgahagan]

Not enough people talk about this. Size is irrelevant we could simple be in a marble in a kid room for all we know lol can't prove we're not 🤷‍♂️😅

[@ThatGuy-qj7fr]

Just want to know if the person who named a quark 'charm' has received the appropriate quantity of beatings...

[@serposaga]

I really want to know. How do we know this? I mean if it can't actually be seen.. How do we figure this out?

[@CHARGING.TARTARUS]

They are strange yet charming from up top down to the bottom

[@LilWoppo]

I have this Horton hears a who theory where when you zoom in on an atom it almost looks like it’s outer space, so what if we are infinitely big and infinitely small meaning you have an entire universe inside of every single cell inside of every single atom inside of your body, and the same goes for us were inside someone’s hand somewhere in a forest😅

[@HisZotness]

This video depicts an outdated "solar system" type model of the atom as first proposed by Niels Bohr in 1913. In 1926, Scrödinger's Equation superseded Bohr's model of electrons ("planets") orbiting the nucleus ("sun") of neutrons and protons with an electron "probability cloud" in 1926. Your video is out of date by nearly 100 years! Good job! 🙄

[@Neutralgentleman]

Charm and bottom must be a couple for sure 😂..

[@spo0kers233]

great video! id add the caveat that quarks are the smallest elementary particles that we know of, just for the sake of leaving it open ended :)

[@bobbijokramm1976]

Yesssss this is new for us old G's.... appreciate this simplicity💯👉💎

[@realmenarzo7720]

Thanks to the team of World of Science 🙏

[@periurban]

Incorrect. There is no swarm of electrons zooming around. The electrons are in a cloud of possible locations and to see them you'd have to somehow destroy them. That would not be a good idea.

[@your_-_mom]

That’s not true either lol, they’re in a probability cloud until measured. They do not need to be removed to be measured

[@periurban]

@@your_-_mom There are a number of ways to measure the presence and influence of electrons. But I don't know of any way of seeing one, as shown in the graphic in the video. Unless you know better?

[@aditya5388]

I am watching your videos regularly

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Thank You Aditya ❤️

[@Timus_han]

All the matter including quacks are made of smaller building blocks which, at the end, end up at pure energy. We don't see these blocks as just we can't detect them with the present technology.

[@davidj.steiger3178]

Who was speaking, Rajesh Koothrappali..??

[@chrisdavis5967]

I like the visuals. Nothing like what we grew up with.

[@coditjava]

Electrons do not orbit the nucleus, if they did, they would radiate their energy and eventually fall into the nucleus. Shrodinger's wave equation demonstrates orbitals in which an electron is likely to be. Veritasium made a video that showed 3d orbitals if Im not mistaken.

[@HiyaEverybody.]

Where did the quarks come from and what are they made up of please? I liked this video because it helps to explain things I don't understand. Thank you.

[@Gameplayer555]

It's a mystery

[@jun31d_14]

We don’t know yet

[@sofievalerie2628]

​@@jun31d_14 yes we know

[@sofievalerie2628]

Quarks are a result of Energy

[@paysour1]

I have reason to believe that they are the smallest particles representing this side of our dimensional world. They are the fundamentals capable of extracting energy from dark matter. Dark matter is the Unseen matric of energy that powers the entire universe. Currently the belief is many of these particles don't last long once they are separated. Instead I contend that they move away faster than the speed of light and the instruments currently used to record their existence. The key to their existence and finding out where they get their energy from will be the biggest breakthrough in the history of mankind. Instead of having to split an atom to get its release of massive amounts of energy we can simply plug into dark matter and get our energy straight from the same source that subatomic particles are capable of doing.

[@zainadam2364]

Thanks for the explanation my favorite go to Indian KZbin professor 😊

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Thanks for watching and your kind words! ❤

[@GomezBro]

Fools think the quarks are the ultimate small thing. It's INFINITELY small, it goes Forever, because even the base particle needs a base particle. It's forever small and forever big. Everything is infinite in every direction can't you guys see that? I will write a paper one day.

[@user-Chaotic]

Theirs actually more smaller of an fundamental building blocks of the universe. It's actually pretty simple that no one can understand it that easily because they ignored it and cannot accept other peoples understanding easily other than proofing it. And that is motion the concept really doesn't get understand that much. I can easily even say motion is just time motion started before time. The infinite little orbs of energy having an reaction making other energy's and after that matter. In short theirs an original first energy before the other kinds or energy In the universe existence in it's starting creation. Well I can all more but I'm sleepy and getting lazy.

[@MathematicalJoeBiden]

Have... Have you graduated high school? Is english your first language?

[@user-Chaotic]

@@MathematicalJoeBiden no English is not really my first language it's like half English and half local language so it's an bit bad because I don't check what I write because I'm to lazy and I don't really care. I only care if I can understand the words or not.

[@junkjingle5190]

it shocked me when i realized a electron is as big as an up and down quark 😳

[@tommarnt]

electrons are actually leptons

[@watgaz518]

Quarks are fundamental in the quantum world just as we humans are in large scale. We are merely bits of an intricate system.

[@Heliosphan33]

It seems the more I want to learn about my reality, the more lost I get. I’m absolutely confused.

[@luissaez3714]

Os there conventionality as in why you used waves of a certain amplitude for the vicarious qks???

[@Atuleshpandey1605]

You got a sub dude super informative

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Thank you for subscribing us Vedant ❤️

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

What’s crazy is the top quark has more mass than half of the elements on the periodic table (not counting isotopes)!

[@lalaommprakashray8499]

I mean don't you get? In some years we used to say that the atom is the fundamental particle and indivisible But then we find out about protons, neutrons and electron were the fundamental particles of the atom And now we are seeing that the quarks are the fundamental particle You see the pattern?

[@franklara9568]

Can't wait to know whats even smaller than that boy i love this stuff ❤️ i only wish i could have studied this earlier and its not too late im already studying ❤❤

[@Mlab923]

Here is question if I crush a glass bottle and record the size of parts every time then eventually i see there is a repetitions or trend in some sizes or weights so how can we make sure a crushed proton made of smaller particles ? Why do these particles have very short life span? It seems like quarks may be not exist.

[@hedonepicurea4327]

I didn't go to school for this but, I think I understand the vocabulary.

[@adityamohurle9738]

We are getting deep inside with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯🔥🔥

[@crankyzor0991]

Now the real question îs If the atom îs mostly empty what's that emptyness made of..it cant be nothing cuz nothing does not exist

[@sofievalerie2628]

In that case it exists. Its just the elecron cluod

[@criskooo2802]

Why "nothing" should not exist? The void and vacuum states are present in quantum field theory

[@dougr.2398]

Sorry, we can’t really say that electrons “swarm in orbits”. They aren’t miniature planets, quantum mechanically speaking. In fact, they are best described only as a probability of spatial occupation, temporal, too

[@rts100x5]

yes but what are FEILDS made of ?

[@Mysoi123]

Fields are purely mathematical objects. A field is a function that takes any value, such as a number, vector, tensor, or spinnor, and assigns it a location in space. For example, a vector field is a function that takes the location as input and outputs the corresponding vector at that location. The same concept applies to quantum fields, where numbers exist throughout space and their values indicate the presence or absence of particles. Although this may not directly correspond to reality, it serves as a powerful model for predictions, much like a programming language for the universe. This is essentially what a theory represents.

[@alwaysright6358]

... until they find out what makes up the different flavors of quarks... then quarks are no longer the smallest.

[@hunterhestekin7420]

What is a quark made up of?

[@omarfish8940]

We do know what makes up quarks Energy There were theories in the 80s that quarks were made up of single point objects called Preons that behave fairly similar to the quantum equivalent to an ideal gas (as they have mass but no volume since they occupy only a point). However this has been debunked and proved against Quarks are simply made through energy and are best thought up as a fog cloud of energy that has unique properties like spin, superposition, and more

[@karenrhjackson1331]

AWESOME❤

[@joaopeixoto421]

This really helped

[@HIS_VF]

Sounds like u r saying Quaucks.

[@stevekem1347]

If correct, Super String Theory describes the fundamental particles.

[@BlackFireTunes]

📣You forgot to mention the strings 🪢inside of the quarks 😊

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

That’s theoretical for now.

[@hunterhestekin7420]

​@@TheWorldOfScienceCo Are there any theories of what matter is made of? If we peel back all of the layers down to the start?

[@BlackFireTunes]

@@hunterhestekin7420 Strings …all matter is made of strings🙂

[@Schell3092]

String theory proposes that the underlying reality of the universe consists of tiny, vibrating strings. Please realize that you can construct countless different underlying realities that abstract out to the standard model. Here's an analogy: You see a yellow light, that is the abstraction, the underlying reality could be photons of 575nm in wavelength, it could be a mix of red and green photons, it could be countless other underlying realities, they all abstract out to yellow. Just because the explanation "works" doesn't mean it's actually real. Literally all it has going for it is mathematical "elegance". It lacks the ability to predict new phenomena that can be experimentally verified. If this underlying reality was true, it should not only abstract out to phenomena that we've already recorded, but to new phenomena we weren't expecting before. Example: GR explains what underlies gravity pulling two masses together by saying what underlies this is the curvature of space-time. The curvature of space-time should also abstract out to certain other phenomena, like gravitational lensing (light curving due to following a straight path in space-time). Atomic theory predicted many behaviors of chemicals. The standard model predicted the higgs boson. String theory cannot be tested because it makes no predictions, if it can't be tested it is simply not science. Here's the real kicker: ok. Let's say string theory is 100% true, it is a fact, the world and everything in it are really made of tiny vibrating strings. The question then is... so what? Why does it matter? That fact isn't telling us anything new about the phenomena observed by the standard model. It's akin to saying, OH, NUMBERS ARE ACTUALLY LETTERS, 1 IS A, 2 IS B, THEREFORE A + A = B!! That doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know, namely that 1 + 1 = 2. Similarly, even if string theory was real, it would have no effect on reality. If it has absolutely no effect on reality, then it is _in effect_ not real. Effectively it's the same exact thing if it was real or not, so why even teach it or think about it at all?

[@tommarnt]

it's not proven yet@@BlackFireTunes

[@archanadewang5323]

Bro knew where he was zooming

[@luissantos1801]

What exactly are these molecules made up of tho? What is anything really? What is mater?

[@BrownGirlsThink]

How did we uncover quarks?

[@ghafugamer786]

Good

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Thanks for watching!

[@Carlostherocker084]

So small that they almost have no size at all? DAYYYYUM, that's small!

[@Sports53787]

“If we could zoom in”

[@thedog2962]

Shouldn't the connection between the quarks be a Y instead of this triangle shape? At least one of the QCD videos said the flux tube is a Y

[@kato1kalin]

Dennis: Some guys are bottom quarks, and others are top quarks. This guy's a top quark. By the way we're totally cool with that. To each his own. Frank: Wait, I'm a little confused here. What's a strange quark ? Dennis: A strange quark is small and slender, like Mac. Mac: Oh no, I'm too muscular, I would be a top quark. Dennis: Ohh don't think so bro. Not hairy enough. Frank: Smooth. I would be a top quark. Dennis: No no, see I don't think you'd be a top quark either. As a matter of fact, I don't know what you would be, because you're definitely not a strange quark. Frank: I'd be a top quark, that's for sure. Mac: Can a strange quark be a top quark, or is that reserved for up quarks? Dennis: I'm sure there's a great deal of switching back and forth, but I think more often than not up quarks are tops, unless they happen to be power-bottoms quarks. Frank: What's a power-bottom quark?

[@ryanblais6208]

Imagine someone patented a quark so that the only way you could use that quark is if you paid royalties 🤔

[@olimnamllu6326]

You can’t zoom in to an atom and see that quarks, or protons and neutrons for that matter, elementary particles don’t have any radius or size.

[@TehDanno1]

So... How do i use my mind to manipulate these quarks in real time, to manifest from the either? Asking for a friend.

[@MengingatALLAH]

Who still think that we are not created ?

[@tommarnt]

wdym

[@kharanshusharma1591]

?

[@rouble2000]

Quarks present the basis for uncertainty (3 body problem)

[@freshtoast3879]

Cool!

[@hilbillie]

How do we know they aren't made of something? Just curious

[@charliefoxtrot5001]

We smash things together and they fall apart in the things they are made of.

[@garyalbertmusic]

But what are quarks made of and how?

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Theoretically, they are made up of preons.

[@minekey949]

​@@TheWorldOfScienceCopreons are made of bananas

[@SpectraMobile]

Quark is the smallest particle?

[@TheWorldOfScienceCo]

Yes! “Theoretically” quarks are further made up of strings, but no evidence so far.

[@criskooo2802]

Also string theory is heavily debated, not everyone agrees on it

[@SneakySnacks]

That's a lot of guac flavors

[@Healthandwealth9422]

So quarks make up protons, electrons, neutrons and those make up the atom and depending on how you arrange the three particles you make different elements My question is: what came first? The proton, electron or neutron after the quark

[@snowballs2023]

Is there anything inside quark? If so what's inside that and so on.

[@deananderson7714]

If there is we haven’t found it yet

[@chrisglover2697]

Yoghurts in my local Tesco 😊

[@loggins2182001]

What are quarks made of?

[@BuggaJB]

So, if zero can’t be reached physically does this mean that there is something underneath quarks? I mean first it was Atoms, then subatomic particles, now quarks? Shouldn’t there be something that make up quarks?

[@sofievalerie2628]

Points have no Dimensions. As far as we know today the electron for example is only a point

[@ashokrana-xs3ws]

Whats inside quark maybe multiverse?

[@tybeedave]

where do quarks come from?

[@tommarnt]

when the big bang happened

[@tybeedave]

@@tommarnt nowhere. quarks don't exist. the BB gave us em radiation

[@FayyazKhan.]

where did the big bang came from@@tommarnt

[@tommarnt]

uh from nothing@@FayyazKhan.

[@FayyazKhan.]

Where did the nothing come from?@@tommarnt

[@_zeeblo]

and if we zoom in even FURTHER-

[@Kangssz]

What if something is even smaller than quark? ,But we didn't found it?

[@Raytracer111]

Least educated video on physics.

[@MathematicalJoeBiden]

How? It is mostly correct

[@itsshubh3430]

Why they have fractionall charge

[@thephenomenal9]

It says human body. Try to get the smallest particle of single soil. Can we separate soil in to a one unit and then go deepper in that one unit of soil.

[@thephenomenal9]

or any other thing particle

[@tappyanime1268]

I am thinking you are gonna talk about powersystem of MHA franchise

[@embones]

I think the quarks size is a Zeptometer

[@grossoomendez1385]

never stop friend!! u . u saludos

[@wayneharrison]

So, does that mean that Quarks, are made of one dimensional string's? ⚛️〰️〰️〰️〰️🤔

[@MisterrWonderful]

If we give names to things we have virtually no understanding of it sounds like we know what we are talking about.

[@SWARAJSINGH2008]

Its too wrong in science to declare something without evidence. At the most we can say that till date quarks are the smallest known particles and we don't know whether there exists further smaller particles or not.

[@duncanfeyd4056]

Yes, but what do all the prefixes actually mean? Like, what does a strange quark do?

[@deananderson7714]

It’s like a down quark but much more massive

[@duncanfeyd4056]

@@deananderson7714 that is only one example..mand dies in no way whatsoever help my understanding...

[@deananderson7714]

@@duncanfeyd4056 they don’t “do” anything they just exist. It’s not like we live in a video game filled with mechanics to increase the gameplay experience

[@JohnAlbertRigali]

What’s a “try-o”? 🤔

[@ericarmstrong8561]

A quark is made of SOME THING. To say it's the smallest is ignorant. EVERY THING is made of some thing SMALLER. EVERYTHING, EVERY THING... Just because YOU can't see something, DOESN'T mean it doesn't EXIST!!!

[@jen_sen8508]

well thats just impossible for everything to be made of something. It would go on for infinity with no starting point

[@yashchauhan8518]

Where are you zooming bro🤣🤣

[@sunilvarma73]

Just like 6 infinity stones I guess

[@justinmadrid8712]

This sounds like made-up mumbo jumbo.

[@3D_Printing]

More space than matter

[@vinothinirajkumar3489]

What are quarks are made up of then?

[@ashokrana-xs3ws]

Maybe inside there is multiverse we are in a loop

[@hifzushaikhshaikh7511]

Some hundreds years back atoms were fundamental particles then came electron proton neutron then again came quarks then again vibrating string then................😮😮😮?

[@DSC800]

Why are gluon's named separately from quarks. Why can't it just be quarks are atracted to other quarks. I mean gluons can't exist on their own, right? Yet they have their own name when it is just a property of the quark.

[@rayv1918]

Quarks and stuff-

[@sarmah8738]

Can we really see electrons ?

[@tommarnt]

so far we haven't seen it yet but we do know it exists

[@nkscreation1437]

I think anti Quarks also exists, this was written in Stephen Hawking's book "brif history of time"

[@ChaineYTXF]

they do indeed. some particles are made of them.

[@BenjaminMilekowsky]

Same goes to christ, there is anti christ 🤦‍♀️

[@sofievalerie2628]

There are Anti atoms too

[@paysour1]

A hydrogen atom is a very simplistic the representation of an atom. Don't you find it fascinating that that a hydrogen atom can maintain its identity as a hydrogen atom for billions of years. It's getting its energy from dark matter. These fundamental particles are the Gateway for that energy.