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No, it isn't. According to the Standard Model, the proton is stable at every time scale. And no proton decay has ever been observed.
by fsh 3y ago
No, it isn't. According to the Standard Model, the proton is stable at every time scale. And no proton decay has ever been observed.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThe Standard Model that is known to be, at best, incomplete?
- jfengel 3y agoOnly in that it doesn't incorporate gravity. And given the extremely low energy scale of gravity, it's unlikely to make a difference here. There are extensions to the Standard Model being used to search for dark matter, but until one of those is actually found experimentally, you can't say that it makes the Standard Model incomplete. It's sound within its domain -- aggravatingly so, since that makes it really hard to figure out what's next.