Quarks Explained in Four Minutes - Physics Girl

Protons and neutrons are made of three quarks, right? Wrong! Explore the particle they should have told you about when you were a kid!

Music: "Eureka," "Safety Net," "Caudio the Worm," "On the Bach"

[Artifactorfiction]

The fact that pulling quarks apart takes so much energy that it creates new quarks  has to be the single most amazing aspect of reality ever

[PrsqSkate]

I'm in my final year of my physics degree and this made way more sense than any lecture/textbook description I've encountered about the quark model. Thank you Physics Girl, you're amazing. Please keep making videos!

[WinstonMakes]

I'm honestly astonished at how quickly, yet clearly you explained that...

[donobrien]

If there had been an internet in the late 70's and I'd seen this video back then... There weren't videos I knew of on the Arpanet when I was doing my physics co-op at NASA... Why couldn't any of my (PhD in physics) professors have made it this easy? I changed to Computer Science and turned out OK, but I still wonder what might have happened if I'd stayed as a physics major.
I'm retired now. I'm loving your videos, and re-learning things I'm pretty sure I used to know, and EASILY learning things I know I never knew! Love that you got together with Simone. Two of my favorite you-Tubers!

[KingCrocoduck]

Explaining the properties of quarks with candy? And using licorice to separate them when showing the quark part of the standard model?! Brilliant.

[IlIlllIlll]

Thats why I love Physics. My brain is full of explanations of phenomenons and explanations of how the universe rolls!
I myself want to be an astrophysicist when I'm older.

[emdeeeff]

I think the important question here is, how can we go about creating an environment where M&M's can spontaneously pop into existence?  I can already take care of the popping _OUT_ part of the process...

[AZ-vygl]

This is one of the best descriptions I've heard in 3 years, learning about this stuff 4-5 hours/night.

Thank you for this.

[MrThepatrickshow]

Wow! This was brilliant!

Not only did you answer questions about quarks I didn't know I had!.. but you did it in a way that I do believe young kids will easily get!  Using candy as the theme for all the visual aids was also brilliant.

You didn't dumb anything down either.  Can't praise this video enough. Keep up the excellent work! :0

[kdebdui]

did you eat all of them after the class?

[beechy]

wow quarks are amazing not only do they seem to appear and disappear, but they are also a currency converter as well 1:40

[Jule-mmdr]

1:49 "partycles" 😂😂😂 love her sense of humor

[MrBeiragua]

I'm not really fat, it's just that my quarks come with a lot of energy.

[cameronlambert]

I've been researching this concept for hours now, and this video is the most helpful thing yet that I've stumbled upon. Thank you very much!

[besmart]

Three quarks for Muster Mark! (but not for protons and neutrons, I guess)

[samsulh]

I have a Bachelors degree in physics, and I didn't know that protons had other non-valence quarks.

[paulgildan]

Great enunciation clarity in your presentation. Bravo! Well done. I am 80 years old and having lousy hearing. There
are most likely others with similar problems, who appreciate the clarity also. Just cranking up the volume often does not
help much.

[megamcg]

I thought I understood quarks and in less than 5 minutes physics girl taught me more than a semester of particle physics. My Mind is blown. Thanks physics girl.

[jabedjarif]

Love the way she repeated "particles "!
How many times i have watched it!
The expression! ❤️
Also choosing a different and effective example was brilliant!

[BrentMinder]

Great video! Now I feel like I know less about atoms and quarks than before. I've never heard the concept of valence quarks, but I get it. Well done.