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I’d add to this, that we know very little about the spatial distribution of nuclear matter at and below the scale of a nucleus. The standard model excels at und
by morelandjs 5y ago
I’d add to this, that we know very little about the spatial distribution of nuclear matter at and below the scale of a nucleus. The standard model excels at understanding the salient characteristics of asymptotic states before and after an interaction, things like spin, lepton number, etc. But we still can’t tell you how gluons are distributed inside the proton.
- indutny 5y agoNor can we tell why proton is a spin 1/2 particle because the gluon soup and particle-antiparticle pairs make this complicated.
- evanb 5y agoWe're not all the way there yet, but this is a hot and rapidly-advancing topic. See, eg. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06948 https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06948 and sources therein.
- akomtu 5y agoI'd speculate it's platonic solids, highly complex and dynamic, but resembling those solids from outside.