{"id":159690,"date":"2023-03-06T21:28:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/protons-could-contain-a-smaller-particle-that-is-heavier-than-the-proton-itself"},"modified":"2023-03-06T21:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:28:32","slug":"protons-could-contain-a-smaller-particle-that-is-heavier-than-the-proton-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/protons-could-contain-a-smaller-particle-that-is-heavier-than-the-proton-itself","title":{"rendered":"Protons Could Contain a Smaller Particle That Is Heavier Than The Proton Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protons-could-contain-a-smaller-particle-that-is-heavier-than-the-proton-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protons may have more \u201ccharm\u201d than we thought, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>A proton is one of the subatomic particles that make up the nucleus of an atom. As small as protons are, they are composed of even tinier elementary particles known as quarks, which come in a variety of \u201cflavors,\u201d or types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, a proton is thought to be made of two up quarks and one down quark. But a new study finds it\u2019s more complicated than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protons may have more \u201ccharm\u201d than we thought, new research suggests. A proton is one of the subatomic particles that make up the nucleus of an atom. As small as protons are, they are composed of even tinier elementary particles known as quarks, which come in a variety of \u201cflavors,\u201d or types: up, down, strange, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}