{"id":169723,"date":"2023-08-15T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/strange-landscape-of-particles-inside-a-proton-mapped-like-never-before"},"modified":"2023-08-15T03:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T08:30:27","slug":"strange-landscape-of-particles-inside-a-proton-mapped-like-never-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/strange-landscape-of-particles-inside-a-proton-mapped-like-never-before","title":{"rendered":"Strange Landscape of Particles Inside a Proton Mapped Like Never Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-landscape-of-particles-inside-a-proton-mapped-like-never-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proton\">protons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutron\">neutrons<\/a> making up atomic nuclei are made up of a trio of even smaller fundamental particles known as quarks.<\/p>\n<p>A new study has now mapped out in unprecedented detail the distribution of the different kinds of quark inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proton\">proton<\/a>, expanding on our understanding of this all-important part of an atom.<\/p>\n<p>Although the quantum landscape within protons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/decades-long-experiment-finds-strange-mix-of-antimatter-in-the-heart-of-every-proton\">is a seething mess<\/a> of quarks and their opposing antiquarks popping in and out of existence, there is a general dominance of two \u2018flavors\u2019 over the others; two up-flavor quarks and a single down-flavor quark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protons and neutrons making up atomic nuclei are made up of a trio of even smaller fundamental particles known as quarks. A new study has now mapped out in unprecedented detail the distribution of the different kinds of quark inside a proton, expanding on our understanding of this all-important part of an atom. Although [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169723","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}