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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[jeeonlyoneyear]

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

[manofculture]

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.

[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.

[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.

[paulcooper]

The fact that we know this is perplexing. Wow.

[youtubersdigest]

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

[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

[reneebarguen]

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

[infinitumneo]

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

[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.

[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😅

[ThatGuy-qjfr]

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

[bobbijokramm]

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

[CHARGING.TARTARUS]

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

[DarwinIV]

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

[realmenarzo]

Thanks to the team of World of Science 🙏

[spokers]

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 :)

[zainadam]

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

[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.

[hgtrad]

What amazes me is spontaneous creation on borrowed energy. Science has NO limits.