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> Quarks contribute less than 1% to the mass of protons and neutrons. This provokes an astonishing question: where does the other 99% of the mass of the visible
by vineyardmike 2y ago
> Quarks contribute less than 1% to the mass of protons and neutrons. This provokes an astonishing question: where does the other 99% of the mass of the visible universe come from? The answer lies in the gluon, and how it interacts with itself to bind quarks together inside hadrons.
For everyone that doesn't really understand it (I don't either), it's a physics thing. The article is talking about Gluons, which apparently are 99% of the mass of the universe. The article talks about discovering this through the particle colliders.
- whynotmaybe 2y agoOn a funny note, if you were a kid in France/Belgium in the 80's, you know what a gluon is thanks the tv show Telechat. [1] In this parody of TV news, the presenters (a cat and an ostrich) often talked to objects to understand their feeling and did so by interviewing the gluon of the object. The gluon was the "soul" of any object. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9chat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9chat