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What's In a Proton?

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Uploaded by on Jul 8, 2009

Physicist Peter Steinberg explains that fundamental particles like protons are themselves made up of still smaller particles called quarks. He discusses how new particles are produced when quarks are liberated from protons...a process that can be observed in Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

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  • this rs academic dhiurria

  • @gaonasteve31 LOL

  • @SuperMagnetizer

    dude, it's time to stop posting

  • The notion that particles are little solid balls glued together by still other particles is extremely naive. All "particles" are actually fields of magnetic energy whose field interactions create the illusion of electric fields and solidity.

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