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The discussion centers on the observation of bare quarks, specifically focusing on top quarks due to their significant mass. It is established that top quarks decay before they can hadronize, which raises questions about the visibility of other unhadronized quarks within a time frame of approximately 10^-25 seconds. The conversation highlights that while decay serves as a method to observe top quarks, it remains unclear why other quarks cannot be observed in a similar manner.

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Because of the enormous mass of top quarks, they decay before hadronizing. But this doesn't explain why the top quarks are only quarks can be observed as bare quarks. If you look into any unhadronized quark in the time interval in the order of 10^-25 seconds, you must be able to observe it as a bare quark before it hadronizes, isn't that so? If not, why?
 
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Garlic said:
If you look into any unhadronized quark in the time interval in the order of 10^-25 seconds
How do you do that?

A decay is a great tool to observe it, but that is available for the top only.Edit: Hi Horst Schlemmer (this is a temporary user verification)
 
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