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