Month: September 2022

SLOW PROTONS. “In vacuum, when free electrons are present, a sufficiently slow proton may pick up a single free electron, becoming a neutral hydrogen atom, which is chemically a free radical. Such "free hydrogen atoms" tend to react chemically with many other types of atoms at sufficiently low energies.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton View in LinkedIn

MOST OF EVERYTHING. “When free hydrogen atoms react with each other, they form neutral hydrogen molecules (H2), which are the most common molecular component of molecular clouds in interstellar space.” The mother of everything. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton View in LinkedIn

PROTON ASYMMETRY. “The asymmetry of antimatter in the proton. The fundamental building blocks of the proton—quarks and gluons—have been known for decades.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

STRANGE MASS. “The two up quarks and the single down quark that comprise the proton in the simplest picture account only for a few per cent of the proton mass, the bulk of which is in the form of quark kinetic and potential energy and gluon energy from the strong force.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

EPHEMERAL EXISTENCE. “An essential feature of this force, as described by quantum chromodynamics, is its ability to create matter–antimatter quark pairs inside the proton that exist only for a very short time.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

SEEN IN DEATH. “Their fleeting existence makes the antimatter quarks within protons difficult to study, but their existence is discernible in reactions in which a matter–antimatter quark pair annihilates.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

THE CONSCIOUS MIND AS MARIONETTE. “Much of our mental life is unconscious.” A marionette is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings, operated by a hidden puppeteer using a vertical or horizontal control bar. (Professor Peter Carruthers). https://lnkd.in/dSbMNgTq View in LinkedIn

Nature art installation, Girona. View in LinkedIn

ASSUMED QUARK ANTI-QUARK PAIRS. “In this picture of quark–antiquark creation by the strong force, the probability distributions as a function of momentum for the presence of up and down antimatter quarks should be nearly identical, given that their masses are very similar and small compared to the mass of the proton.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn

ACTUAL QUARK ANTI-QUARK PAIRS. “Here we provide evidence from muon pair production measurements that these distributions are considerably different, with more abundant down antimatter quarks than up antimatter quarks over a wide range of momenta.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03282-z View in LinkedIn