space.com Here’s a mysterious truth that scientists have known since 1983: Protons and neutrons act differently when they’re inside an atom, versus floating freely through space. Specifically, the subatomic particles that make up those protons and neutrons, called quarks, slow down massively once they’re confined to a nucleus in an atom. Physicists really didn’t like this, […]
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