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。

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，是由名为夸克的更小单元所组成的。

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，夸克是科学界已知的最小粒子。

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?

有人知道当我们把夸克组合成介子和重子时会发生什么吗？