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hongsy
1742 days ago
> Only a little over 1% the mass of a neutron is the three quarks normally listed.
Do you have a source for this?
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monocasa
1742 days ago
You can add up the mass of one up quark (2.2MeV) and two down quarks (4.7MeV each) and compare that to the mass of a neutron (939.565MeV)
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cwillu
1742 days ago
https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
has a very good explanation.
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blobster
1742 days ago
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-m...
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