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克世界。

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。

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

夸克海洋是如何在大爆炸后冷却下来的。

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子质量。 - 正。

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

夸克胶子等离子体，早期宇宙，是一种近乎完美的液体。

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

假设这些是夸克、电子、光量子和构成标准模型的粒子。

It is made of three tiny fundamental particles called quarks.

它由三个极小的基本粒子组成，称为夸克。

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，是由名为夸克的更小单元所组成的。

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

证实夸克存在的亨利·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.

当美夸克衰变时，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，夸克和电子是基本粒子，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、夸克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，你会发现夸克，中微子等等，然后，也许，不断深入到限深处。

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，出现的夸克粒子似乎就越多。

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

夸克粒子究竟是什么，它在人类心目中又是什么样子得呢？

An exotic state of matter known as a quark-gluon plasma.

一种被称为夸克胶子等离子体的奇异物质状态。

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

但是要想看到夸克，必须再放大 1000 倍。

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。

A neutron contains two down quarks and one up.

一个中子包含两个下夸克和一个上夸克。