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 ...