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

比你亿倍的是奇异的夸克世。

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。

The Universe was a sea of electrons and quarks.

宇宙是电子和夸克的海洋。

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，是由名为夸克的更单元所组成的。

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。

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。但他们关注的是一种叫做“美夸克”的粒子，这种粒子本身是另一种叫做“B-介子”的粒子的一部分。

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子研究组织的大型强子对撞机来研究被称为“美夸克”的不寻常粒子。

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克制成的新奇异物质，夸克是科学的最粒子。

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?

有人道当我们把夸克组合成介子和重子时会发生什么吗？

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？

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，出现的夸克粒子似乎就越多。

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，产生的子粒子有时包含一对所谓的带电轻子。

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，夸克和电子是基本粒子，所以它们不能再被细分。

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。 - 正确。

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。

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

质子包含两个“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？