Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by everybodyknows 2919 days ago
>>Ordinary matter, or "baryons," ...

Whoa. Leptons are ordinary matter too. Electrons are leptons.

1 comments

That's a reasonable nitpick, though the Missing Baryon Problem is/was a problem of missing mass, and electron mass is so small compared to nuclei as to be indistinguishable from noise. That's why we often say ordinary matter is "just" baryons, in the same way that galaxies are "just" blobs of stars and gas, with planets contributing neglible mass.