The Universe was a sea of electrons and quarks.

宇宙是电子和夸的海洋。

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的新奇异物质，夸是科学界已知的最小粒子。

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

比你小五万亿倍的是奇异的夸世界。

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的粒子质量。 - 正确。

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。

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组合成介子和重子时会发生什么吗？

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

不幸的是，强子，比如质子和反质子，是由名为夸的更小单元所组成的。

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

证实夸存在的亨利·肯德，杰罗姆·弗里德曼和理查德·泰勒。

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，产生的子粒子有时包含一对所谓的带电轻子。

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，夸和电子是基本粒子，所以它们不能再被细分。

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。

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。

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

很难说，因为你越努寻找，出现的夸粒子似乎就越多。

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？

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 涌现的同时，出现了一个问题。

But why should that lead to more quarks than antiquarks?

但为什么这会导致夸多于反夸呢？

A neutron contains two down quarks and one up.

一个中子包含两个下夸和一个上夸。

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

质子包含两个“上” 夸和一个“下” 夸。

But there are six varieties of quarks: up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom.

但是有六种夸： 上夸、 下夸、 奇异夸、 魅夸、顶夸和底夸。

So there'd be a lot of quarks lined up.

所以会有很多夸排成一行。