Hank Green - Strange Charm Chords

Capo 3



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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

            C                               F
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