The fact that pulling quarks apart takes so much energy that it creates new quarks has to be the single most amazing aspect of reality ever

did you eat all of them after the class?

Instant up vote just for party-cles

I think the important question here is, how can we go about creating an environment where M&M's can spontaneously pop into existence? I can already take care of the popping

Explaining the properties of quarks with candy? And using licorice to separate them when showing the quark part of the standard model?! Brilliant.

I'm honestly astonished at how quickly, yet clearly you explained that...

I have a Bachelors degree in physics, and I didn't know that protons had other non-valence quarks.

Gosh, i'm really hungry now...

Am I the only one confused by the 'quirk' pronunciation? They are called quarks (rhymes with marks) as spelt. When Gell-Mann proposed the name quarks, to be pronounced as qwawks (rhymes with hawkes), but they are generally pronounced quarks because he took the name from a line from a poem 'three quarks for mister mark', which due to rhyming is obviously pronounced like it's spelt.

Three quarks for Muster Mark! (but not for protons and neutrons, I guess)

I'm in my final year of my physics degree and this made way more sense than any lecture/textbook description I've encountered about the quark model. Thank you Physics Girl, you're amazing. Please keep making videos!

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If there had been an internet in the late 70's and I'd seen this video back then... There weren't videos I knew of on the Arpanet when I was doing my physics co-op at NASA... Why couldn't any of my (PhD in physics) professors have made it this easy? I changed to Computer Science and turned out OK, but I still wonder what might have happened if I'd stayed as a physics major.

I'm not really fat, it's just that my quarks come with a lot of energy.

This is one of the best descriptions I've heard in 3 years, learning about this stuff 4-5 hours/night.

Thats why I love Physics. My brain is full of explanations of phenomenons and explanations of how the universe rolls!

wow quarks are amazing not only do they seem to appear and disappear, but they are also a currency converter as well

Wow! This was brilliant!

I've been researching this concept for hours now, and this video is the most helpful thing yet that I've stumbled upon. Thank you very much!

Your better than my science teacher