• Question: How heavey would TOP QUARK weigh if where the size of a tennis ball?

    Asked by metalmaster99 to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 15 Mar 2012:


      Each top quark has a tiny mass. You would need ten billion billion billion of them to make up a gram. We think that quarks are fundamental particles, this means that they don’t have any size, they’re really just points, so you can’t scale them up to the size of a tennis ball.

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