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The quark of the matter: what's really inside a proton?

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Gluons Can Create Quark Anti Quark Pears

Proton is made up of three smaller elementary particles called quarks. Proton researcher paul rymer explains how gluons hold them all together. Gluons can create ephemeral quark anti quark pears, for example,. An up quark and an anti up quark. Up and down quarks have very similar masses. This means you should not really expect any difference between the amount of and pau qua.

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