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Breakthrough Junior Challenge

Course: Breakthrough Junior Challenge > Unit 3

Lesson 2: 2019 Challenge — Regional champions

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The quark theory of hadrons

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By Ishaan Vohra. Country: UK. Europe Region Champion: 2019 Breakthrough Junior Challenge.

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arn't there 6 types of quarks, up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom?
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  That's right, but in addition to those, each has an antimatter equivalent. Protons are made of three regular quarks, while antiprotons are made of three antiquarks. Some short-lived particles are even made of a quark and an antimatter quark. So there are really twelve different quarks.
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This is actually such a great video!!
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