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。

The quark-gluon plasma, the early universe, is a nearly perfect frictionless liquid.

夸胶子等离子体，早期，是一种近乎完摩擦液体。

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

夸海洋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粒子质量。 - 正确。

It is made of three tiny fundamental particles called quarks.

它由三个极小基本粒子组成，称为夸。

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型粒子。

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，出现夸粒子似乎就越多。

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

夸粒子究竟是什么，它在人类心目中又是什么样子得呢？

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。

It looks at the moment as if quarks and electrons are point-like particles.

当时，看上去就好像夸和电子都是点状粒子。

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粒子。

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，不断深入到限深处。

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

当夸衰变时，产生子粒子有时包含一对所谓带电轻子。

This creates a neutron star, quirk star or black hole and releases a beam of radiation in the process.

这个过程中会产生中子星、夸星或者是黑洞并释放出一簇辐射线。

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，夸和电子是基本粒子，所以它们不能再被细分。

So we're looking for the innards of the quarks by smashing them together as hard as we can.

我们正在尽自己所能，去撞击夸，期待能寻找到它内部结构。

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。