But if you twirl it in a different way, it becomes a quark.

但如果你以不同的方式旋转它，它会变成一个夸克。

What actually is a quark, what does it look like to human minds?

夸克粒究竟什么，它在人类心目中又什么样得呢？

The Universe was a sea of electrons and quarks.

宇宙和夸克的海洋。

Henry Kendall, Jerome Friedman, and Richard Taylor for the discovery of quarks.

证实夸克存在的亨利·肯德尔，杰罗姆·弗里德曼和理查德·泰勒。

We can ignore the particle masses at the individual quark level. - Correct.

我们可以从个别夸克层级忽略它的粒质量。 - 正确。

A quintillion times smaller than you is the strange world of the quarks.

比你小五万亿倍的奇异的夸克世界。

Unfortunately hadrons, such as protons and antiprotons, are made of smaller bits called quarks.

不幸的，强，比如质和反质，由名为夸克的更小单元所组成的。

The details are arcane. But they concern particles called beauty quarks which, themselves, form part of other particles called B-mesons.

细节晦涩难懂。但他们关注的一“美夸克”的粒，这粒本身另一“B-介”的粒的一部分。

Other attempts to better understand antimatter include using CERN's Large Hadron Collider to investigate unusual particles called " beauty quarks."

更好地了解反物质的其他尝试包括使用欧洲核研究组织的大型强对撞机来研究被称为“美夸克”的不寻常粒。

And researchers have discovered new so-called exotic matter made from quarks, the smallest particles known to science.

研究人员发现了由夸克制成的新奇异物质，夸克科学界已知的最小粒。

Yet, nestling amid the quarks and transistors and the nucleic acids and nanotubes, there is a question.

然而，就在夸克、半导体、核酸和纳米管等 涌现的同时，出现了一个问题。

Now, does anyone know what happens to quarks when we combine them to make mesons and baryons?

有人知道当我们把夸克组合成介和重时会发生什么吗？

Deeper still you would find quarks, neutrinos and so on and then, just maybe, continuously deeper into infinity.

再往深处，你会发现夸克，中微等等，然后，也许，不断深入到无限深处。

Impossible to say, because the harder you look for them the more quarks seem to appear.

很难说，因为你越努力寻找，出现的夸克粒似乎就越多。

When beauty quarks decay, the daughter particles produced sometimes include a pair of what are known as charged leptons.

当美夸克衰变时，产生的粒有时包含一对所谓的带轻。

Mathematical string theories suggest descriptions of this unification, in addition to a fundamental structure for sub-atomic quarks and electrons.

大爆炸也预测，在早期高温的 宇宙中，我们的基本「力」可能会统一成一股超级力。

And as far as we know, quarks and electrons are basic particles, so they can't be subdivided any more.

据我们所知，夸克和基本粒，所以它们不能再被细分。

A neutron contains two down quarks and one up.

一个中包含两个下夸克和一个上夸克。

A proton contains two “up” quarks and one “down” quark.

质包含两个“上” 夸克和一个“下” 夸克。

But why should that lead to more quarks than antiquarks?

但为什么这会导致夸克多于反夸克呢？