
What's a proton made of?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Are You in Neels Bor's Bathtub?
Daniel: I think every science story involves a bathtub and somebody yelling eureka while naked, every single one. Hejus loved he invented everything, quanta mechanics, structure, the atom, pod casting. And we've made a lot of progress trying to figure that out as a human species. We have shown that those elements are made out of just a few smaller particles from which you can make lifium and technitium and uranium - all with the same ingredients. That's huge progress. It could have been an infinite number of building blocks that describe all the things around us. But in our universe, weirdly, everything can be built out of a smaller set of
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