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A proton cut open to show three coloured quarks inside a turbulent glowing sea of gluon energy

Where Does the Proton’s Mass Come From? (Hint: ...

A proton weighs 938 MeV/c², but its two up quarks and one down quark add up to only about 9 MeV/c², roughly 1%. The rest is energy: the motion of...

Where Does the Proton’s Mass Come From? (Hint: ...

A proton weighs 938 MeV/c², but its two up quarks and one down quark add up to only about 9 MeV/c², roughly 1%. The rest is energy: the motion of...

Cosmic ray shower of muon streaks raining down to snowy mountain peaks

Why Do Muons Reach the Ground? Time Dilation, M...

A muon at rest lives about 2.2 microseconds, enough to travel only a few hundred metres even at nearly light speed. Yet muons made high in the atmosphere are counted...

Why Do Muons Reach the Ground? Time Dilation, M...

A muon at rest lives about 2.2 microseconds, enough to travel only a few hundred metres even at nearly light speed. Yet muons made high in the atmosphere are counted...

Red, green and blue quarks bound by crackling flux tubes, one tube snapping in a flash that creates a new quark pair

What Are Gluons, and Why Can’t We See a Single ...

Every proton holds three quarks, yet no experiment has ever pulled a single quark free. The reason is the strange behaviour of gluons, the carriers of the strong force. Here...

What Are Gluons, and Why Can’t We See a Single ...

Every proton holds three quarks, yet no experiment has ever pulled a single quark free. The reason is the strange behaviour of gluons, the carriers of the strong force. Here...

A tightly packed nucleus of red protons and blue neutrons bound by crackling sparks of the strong force, with faint electron orbits

What Holds the Nucleus Together? The Strong For...

Protons repel each other, yet nuclei hold together. The answer is the strong force, first pictured by Hideki Yukawa as an exchange of mesons and now understood through quarks and...

What Holds the Nucleus Together? The Strong For...

Protons repel each other, yet nuclei hold together. The answer is the strong force, first pictured by Hideki Yukawa as an exchange of mesons and now understood through quarks and...

A glowing atomic nucleus in deep space where one blue neutron flares into a gold proton and a bright electron streaks away

Beta Decay Unveiled: Dance of the Weak Nuclear ...

Beta Decay Unveiled: Dance of the Weak Nuclear Force Welcome back, physics fans, to Pixelated Physics, your favorite destination for quantum quirks and cosmic mysteries! Today’s topic? The wildly fascinating...

Beta Decay Unveiled: Dance of the Weak Nuclear ...

Beta Decay Unveiled: Dance of the Weak Nuclear Force Welcome back, physics fans, to Pixelated Physics, your favorite destination for quantum quirks and cosmic mysteries! Today’s topic? The wildly fascinating...

A gold particle and a violet antiparticle meeting in a white flash that sends two beams of light out in opposite directions

Particle Annihilation Explained: When Matter Me...

Welcome, curious minds, to another electrifying exploration brought to you by Pixelated Physics! Today, we're diving deep into the astonishing quantum event known as particle annihilation. Hold onto your pixels, because...

Particle Annihilation Explained: When Matter Me...

Welcome, curious minds, to another electrifying exploration brought to you by Pixelated Physics! Today, we're diving deep into the astonishing quantum event known as particle annihilation. Hold onto your pixels, because...