Hank Green - Strange Charm lyrics

A quark is a fundamental
Constituent of matter
Observed in 1968 through deep elastic scatter
We found that protons aren't as
Simple as we thought
We thought they were solid particles
But they are not

Protons in fact are made up
Of three separate pieces
It just gets more confusing
As our knowledge increases
But that is what a quark is
It's a piece of a proton
And they also make up other
Things including the neutron

Oh, up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
If you don't know what a quark is
It don't matter you still got 'em
And with leptons and bosons
Unless something's amiss
They make up everything that we can
See and that we know exists

Things made up of quarks
Including protons and neutrons
Are composite particles that
Physicists call hadrons
Many types of hadrons
Are theoretically described
But most exist for only very
Brief amounts of time

Quarks have electric charge, color charge
Mass and spin and having colour charge means
They exist solely inside
Of other kinds of particles
And cannot exist alone
Which is why quarks have never
Been studied on their own

Up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom
If you don't know what a quark is
It don't matter you still got 'em
And with leptons and bosons
Unless something's amiss
They make up everything that we can
See and that we know exists

Quarks can join together in
Two different ways
Baryons and Mesons, but most instantly decay
If a particle has three quarks
Then it's a baryon
And if there's one quark and an anti-quark
Then it is a meson
These tiny bit's of matter are
A part of almost everything
And there is no unified theory
To make it less confusing
But the fact that we've identified
That they exist at all
Is so god damn remarkable that
I just sit in awe

Oh, up, down, strange charm, top, bottom
If you don't know what a quark is
It don't matter you still got 'em
And with leptons and bosons
Unless something's amiss
They make up everything that we can
See and that we know exists