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Not really. The standard model has them as fundamental particles, I think you might be reading too much into the analogy. Also, they aren't individual quarks "
by noobermin 9y ago
Not really. The standard model has them as fundamental particles, I think you might be reading too much into the analogy.
Also, they aren't individual quarks "combining" into something else, it is an interaction between baryons which are groups of quarks and the "output" has an exchange of quarks between the baryons. Quarks can't be "free" at most energy scales due to color confinement.
- fallingfrog 9y agoOh ok, got it. That makes sense. I think it was the phrasing in the paper such as "..fusing quarks can release much more energy than anyone thought.." "..energy is involved when quarks fuse together.." and so on that got me. I didn't catch that it's baryons being fused not quarks.