Quarks: The Miracle That Saved Particle Physics

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Smaller than an atom, but majorly important: introducing the quark! Quarks helped make sense of particle physics, and we'll tell you all about it in this new episode of SciShow!

Hosted by: Stefan Chin

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[twentylush]

Gell-mann seriously had a hidden talent for naming schemes

[VyvienneEaux]

Physics before quarks: "There's four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and

[NickRoman]

It would be cool to have a channel that produces a video series that explains how particle accelerators work, how the results are collected and then how they are analyzed to come up with these proofs of particles like quarks.

[Sett]

"...but apparently [calling the new quarks truth and beauty] was just too much... "
That was a genuine LOL on my part.

[somniad]

"indivisible"

haha I've heard that joke before, not getting me this time

[sebastianelytron]

People kept telling me I'm weird, so I had to put a positive spin on it. That's how I discovered my quarks. Now I tell people I'm not weird, just quarky.

[linkinl]

"Particle with strangeness were particles with strange quarks in them" mkay

[SirGenderon]

Up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top. Sounds like sexy time roles.

[pea]

Quark: it smells like upquark
What is upquark?
Quark: Nothin much you?

[musclehank]

my powerful flexing broke some quantum mechanics causing scientists to investigate

[sairbear]

On Canadian radio there was a show called “quirks and quarks” and I loved listening on road trips. Now I love scishow and science podcasts, and I think that show is the reason why!

[NobodyNew]

"if you use energy to separate quarks, they will use this energy to make new quarks"
-Kurzgesagt

[Quantumironturtle]

"Up, Down,
Strange, Charm,
Top, Bottom,
if you don't know what a quark is it don't matter you've still got 'em."

[Master_Therion]

3:30 So a quark is kind of like my phone, it never seems to have a full charge.

[Toastmaster_]

I'd like to know more about _how_ these particles were predicted and tested for their existence. All too often, I heard about scientists apparently proving something but not even a layman overview of how it was done.

[dconnett]

Stefan Chin, I would like you to do a behind the scenes video on your work flow operations in the production of your videos. The quality is generally very good and the number you produce are amazing. Would like to “meet” all of the people in the credits.

[TactileTherapy]

This show has been beyond instrumental in helping me develop my novel. Thank you Scishow, and keep being great

[amicaniiya]

You should have explained where Gell-Mann got the idea for the name! He read it in James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake, and Joyce in turn heard it when he was travelling through Germany from some ladies on a market; "Quark" is German for curd cheese. So basically, the whole universe is made up of a dairy product

[AmGrassas]

Scientist:That's it our universe has six total types of quark.

*SOME NEW UNIDENTIFIES QUARKS:"Im gonna end this man whole career."*