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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable

By Charlie Wood +1 authors
Merrill Sherman
October 19, 2022
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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed.

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The Mysterious Forces Inside the Nucleus Grow a Little Less Strange

By Charlie Wood
February 14, 2022
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The strong force holds protons and neutrons together, but the theory behind it is largely inscrutable. Two new approaches show how it works.

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‘Impossible’ Particle Discovery Adds Key Piece to the Strong Force Puzzle

By Charlie Wood
September 27, 2021
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The unexpected discovery of the double-charm tetraquark has given physicists a new tool with which to hone their understanding of the strongest of nature’s fundamental forces.

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‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles

By Natalie Wolchover
April 7, 2021
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Today’s long-anticipated announcement by Fermilab’s Muon g-2 team appears to solidify a tantalizing conflict between nature and theory. But a separate calculation, published at the same time, has clouded the picture.

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Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter

By Natalie Wolchover
February 24, 2021
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Twenty years ago, physicists set out to investigate a mysterious asymmetry in the proton’s interior. Their results, published today, show how antimatter helps stabilize every atom’s core.

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A Prodigy Who Cracked Open the Cosmos

By Claudia Dreifus
January 12, 2021
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Frank Wilczek has been at the forefront of theoretical physics for the past 50 years. He talks about winning the Nobel Prize for work he did as a student, his solution to the dark matter problem, and the God of a scientist.

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What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments.

By Charlie Wood
May 6, 2020
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Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.

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Why the Laws of Physics Are Inevitable

By Natalie Wolchover
December 9, 2019
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By considering simple symmetries, physicists working on the “bootstrap” can rediscover the basic form of the known forces that shape the universe.

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Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

By Charlie Wood
July 30, 2019
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Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging neutron stars.


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