{"id":206979,"date":"2025-02-22T02:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-map-the-forces-acting-inside-a-proton"},"modified":"2025-02-22T02:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:04:12","slug":"scientists-map-the-forces-acting-inside-a-proton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/scientists-map-the-forces-acting-inside-a-proton","title":{"rendered":"Scientists map the forces acting inside a proton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-map-the-forces-acting-inside-a-proton.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks\u2014the tiny particles within\u2014respond when hit by high-energy photons.<\/p>\n<p>The international team includes experts from the University of Adelaide who are exploring the structure of sub-atomic matter to try and provide further insight into the forces that underpin the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+world\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have used a powerful computational technique called lattice quantum chromodynamics to map the forces acting inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/proton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">proton<\/a>,\u201d said Associate Professor Ross Young, Associate Head of Learning and Teaching, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, who is part of the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks\u2014the tiny particles within\u2014respond when hit by high-energy photons. The international team includes experts from the University of Adelaide who are exploring the structure of sub-atomic matter to try and provide further insight into the forces that underpin the natural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206979","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=206979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}