{"id":88064,"date":"2019-02-21T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/physicists-have-finally-solved-a-fundamental-mystery-concerning-the-insides-of-atoms"},"modified":"2019-02-21T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:24:16","slug":"physicists-have-finally-solved-a-fundamental-mystery-concerning-the-insides-of-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/physicists-have-finally-solved-a-fundamental-mystery-concerning-the-insides-of-atoms","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Have Finally Solved a Fundamental Mystery Concerning The Insides of Atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-finally-solved-a-fundamental-mystery-concerning-the-insides-of-atoms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something about atoms has never added up. Fundamental particles called quarks get kind of sluggish once they\u2019re caught up in crowds of protons and neutrons \u2013 and quite frankly, they shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, physicists have hunted for clues on the quark\u2019s tendency to slow down in larger atoms, but have come up empty-handed. But now, a closer look at old data has finally revealed a clue to explain this strange phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>A massive team of physicists known as the CLAS Collaboration (after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CLAS_detector\">CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer<\/a>) recently ran through data gathered from previous experiments at the Jefferson Lab\u2019s Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-crack-a-35-year-old-mystery-on-particle-speed-in-atomic-nuclei\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-crack-a-35-year-old-...mic-nuclei<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about atoms has never added up. Fundamental particles called quarks get kind of sluggish once they\u2019re caught up in crowds of protons and neutrons \u2013 and quite frankly, they shouldn\u2019t. For decades, physicists have hunted for clues on the quark\u2019s tendency to slow down in larger atoms, but have come up empty-handed. But now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88064","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}