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How can the top quark be classified as a fundamental particle when it decays down to other quarks?

asked Sep 12, 2022 in Quarks by QuantumHorizon

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Why does charge come in packets of –1/3, +2/3, and –1? Why would an elementary particle (in this case, electron) have 3-times the charge of a quark? Is there something special about thirds of a charge?

asked Sep 12, 2022 in Quarks by PaPaRumple

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Is the weak force the strongest force during the top quark decay?

asked Sep 11, 2022 in Quarks by Lsinshirley

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Is there anything smaller than a quark that simply hasn't been discovered or named yet?

asked Sep 11, 2022 in Quarks by Zed1001

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How many quarks are in a proton? I've heard that there can be hundreds of virtual quark-antiquark pairs at once, but only three valence quarks.

asked Sep 11, 2022 in Quarks by Screwfix (2.5k points)

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Are quark stars baryons?

asked Sep 11, 2022 in Quarks by Angiesluck

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Can a neutron exist with 2 Quarks?

asked Sep 10, 2022 in Quarks by SeraphicTwilight

+237 votes

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Inside a black hole, do the atoms break up into quarks and just sit there?

asked Aug 19, 2022 in Quarks by QuantumPulse

+26 votes

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How come quarks have fractional charges? Doesn't it contradict the quantization of charge?

asked Aug 18, 2022 in Quarks by bluevelvet

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The state of an electron is described as a probabilistic wavefunction. Isn't the same true for all fundamental particles (quarks etc)? If so, why do (popular) discussions of wavefunctions always seem to focus just on electrons?

asked Aug 18, 2022 in Quarks by Jamesplumb86

+24 votes

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At the risk of sounding like a total idiot, what is the seemingly basic principle (or any others for that matter) in Quantum Mechanics of Schrodinger's cat?

asked Aug 17, 2022 in Quarks by Acapris

+14 votes

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Is the matter in our universe, at its smallest particles, nothing but quarks and the extreme pressure of the dark matter of space?

asked Aug 16, 2022 in Quarks by portfoliosilent

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Why can’t mesons be separated into individual quarks?

asked Aug 13, 2022 in Quarks by George Pires

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Is there a Feynman diagram showing the creation of a baryon from non-baryons? Where do baryons come from?

asked Aug 13, 2022 in Quarks by andbass

+10 votes

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Why do quarks gain mass from their kinetic energy but a photon remains massless despite its velocity?

asked Aug 13, 2022 in Quarks by nerostjames

+25 votes

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What are the theoretical properties of Strange Matter? I have looked everywhere, but information about the theoretical substance is surprisingly sparse, but make claims that suggest detailed models. Specifically, the up, down, strange quark matter.

asked Aug 13, 2022 in Quarks by kidspud

+46 votes

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Why was quantum chromodynamics invented (if not for the quarks inside a neutron/proton)? What problem did it solve?

asked Aug 12, 2022 in Quarks by Ells

+96 votes

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If we cannot see electrons and protons, or smaller particles such as quarks, how can we be sure they exist?

asked Jul 19, 2022 in Quarks by MysticDreamer

+8 votes

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Inside atoms, there are protons, neutrons, and electrons. Inside of them, there are quarks, and it's going on. It does not seem logical that there is an end to this. Everything must be created from something. Does that mean this line’s going forever?

asked Jul 19, 2022 in Quarks by kurbads

+18 votes

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If we tried to write a quark code, how would it look like? How many variables would it have? How big would it be?

asked Jul 19, 2022 in Quarks by Abe_SD

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