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AMA | September 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Mass of a Loan All by Itself, Quark, OK?

Quannfield theory really matters here. That's one thing. The other thing is the extra energy. If you had a lone quark all by itself, the energy in the gluon field around it would be infinitely big. However, if you have three quarks, all of different colors, then, just like the electron and the proton, the fields cant out at infinity. There's more energy and therefore more mass ther there's a contribution to the massf of the particle from its electric field.

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