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

比你小五万亿倍是奇异夸世界。

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

不幸是，强子，比如质子和反质子，是由名为夸更小单元所组成。

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

但如果你以不同方式旋转它，它会变成一个夸。

How the sea of quarks cooled down in the moments after the Big Bang.

夸是如何在大爆炸后冷却下来。

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

证实夸存在亨利·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.

我们可以从个别夸层级忽略它子质量。 - 正确。

Supposing these are quarks and electrons, photons, the particles that constitute the standard model.

假设这些是夸、电子、光量子和构成标准模子。

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制成新奇异物质，夸是科学界已知最小子。

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

然而，就在夸、半导体、核酸和纳米管等 涌现同时，出现了一个问题。

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，中微子等等，然后，也许，不断深入到无限深处。

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

当美夸衰变时，产生子子有时包含一对所谓带电轻子。

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，夸和电子是基本子，所以它们不能再被细分。

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 宇宙中，我们基本「力」可能会统一成一股超级力。

It is made of three tiny fundamental particles called quarks.

它由三个极小基本子组成，称为夸。

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，出现夸子似乎就越多。

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

夸子究竟是什么，它在人类心目中又是什么样子得呢？

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。但他们关注是一种叫做“美夸”子，这种子本身是另一种叫做“B-介子”子一部分。

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

更好地了解反物质其他尝试包括使用欧洲核子研究组织大强子对撞机来研究被称为“美夸”不寻常子。

But to get to the Planck length, you have to look a hundred, million, billion times smaller than a quark.

一个单位普朗长度等于一个夸 10 亿亿分之一。

But to reach the size of a quark we have to zoom in 1,000 times smaller.

但是要想看到夸，必须再放大 1000 倍。