Articles for tag: Nuclear Physics, Physics Discovery, Protons, Quantum Mechanics, Subatomic Physics

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New Glimpse into Subatomic Physics: Protons Are More Complex Than We Thought

Suhail Ahmed

The proton was supposed to be simple. Three quarks held together by gluons sounded tidy enough to fit on a classroom poster and, for decades, that picture did its job. But new measurements, sharper than anything we’ve had before, are showing a world that’s messier, livelier, and frankly more beautiful than the tidy sketch. Inside ...

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From Lead to Gold: A Glimpse of Nuclear Alchemy at the Large Hadron Collider

Jan Otte

Dreaming of turning base metals into gold, alchemists for millennia combined mysticism, chemistry, and pure ambition in their quest. Scientists have turned lead into gold today at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), surpassing what medieval alchemists could not accomplish. But this modern transmutation is not at all what we know of from mythology. It provides ...