Strange Charm

	  		
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A quark is a fundamental constituent of matter 

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Observed in 1968 through deep electric scatter 

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We found that protons were more complex than we thought 

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We thought they were solid particles but they are not 

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Protons in fact are made up of three separate pieces 

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It just gets more confusing as our knowledge increases 

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And that is what a quark is; it’s a piece of a proton 

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And they also make up other things including the neutron 

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If you don’t know what a quark is it doesn’t matter, you still got em 

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And with leptons and bosons unless something’s amiss 

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They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists 

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Things made up of quarks including protons and neutrons 

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Are composite particles that physicist call hadrons 

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Many times those hadrons are theoretically described 

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But most exist for only very brief amounts of time 

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Quarks have electric charge, colour charge, mass and spin 

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And having colour charge means they exist solely in side 

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Other kinds of particles that cannot exist alone 

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Which is why quarks have never been studied on their own 

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If you don’t know what a quark is it doesn’t matter, you still got em 

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And with leptons and bosons unless something’s amiss 

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They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists 

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These tiny bits of matter are part of almost everything 

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There is no unified theory to make it less confusing 

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But the fact that we’ve identified that they exist at all 

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Is so remarkable that I am constantly in awe 

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If you don’t know what a quark is it doesn’t matter, you still got em 

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And with leptons and bosons unless something’s amiss 

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They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists