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Is There Something Smaller Than Quarks? Experimental Test

2026-04-28 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an exciting experiment that tests if there is something smaller than quarks Links: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25458 Other videos: https://youtu.be/kBgABrIs45o https://youtu.be/WDNcWZaAOKE https://youtu.be/u2fJ_5jw9f8 #quark #particles #physics 0:00 Is there anything inside quarks? 0:55 Why this matters - history of the standard model 2:55 17 Particles 4:50 Preons - can they exist? 5:33 Experimental test and what was done 7:01 Results 8:30 Overall conclusion 9:30 Why this is important 11:55 So... Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@TheKindleSystem 2026-04-28

Physics every 60 or so years "Nahhhhh THIS is actually the smallest particle"

654 74 replies
@worldwarwitt2760 2026-04-28

The next new particle should be called the Ant-on

300 17 replies
@OneOneSquirrel 2026-04-28

It's funny to hear Anton get so technical and then immediately use the very scientific term, "thingy."

236 6 replies
@jools2323 2026-04-28

It would be pretty shocking if there's nothing smaller than quarks.

230 44 replies
@ЗапискиИнтроверта-я1ш 2026-04-29

Is There Something Smaller Than Quarks? Yes, my salary

131 6 replies
@WewasAtamans 2026-04-29

If something doesn't want to break up, you're not smashing it hard enough. (we're gonna need a bigger collider)

82 10 replies
@Snoopyzell 2026-04-28

The 9 year olds in my class love teasing me about being SO short. They will say "you are so small that you are smaller than an atom"... because of watching your channel I now know about quarks... so I will joke with them and say "quark" but using the sound of quack (like a duck ) I have explained to the kids that there are quarks in an atom ... it's a fun old-lady way to joke with the kids..

65 8 replies
@rgnyc 2026-04-29

If I'd had a physics teacher explain subatomic particles as clearly as this, my career path might have been quite different. Thanks for this!

54 1 replies
@alexandercolefield9523 2026-04-29

The reason they are refered to as flavors and not types is because mathematically the 6-types of quarks are simply a variable f in the same way that color charge is a variable. Early on in the study of quarks there were only 3 variables: up, down, and strange, and they composed a 3D model of how quarks operated. However it was lacking at higher energy levels, so they postulated the existence of the other 3 to balance the books and they later confirmed the other 3 really did exist.

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@WilliamFord972 2026-04-29

Please, physics community, don’t name them prions (preons?). We already have misfolded proteins called prions.

11 2 replies

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