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The Mass of the Proton
In a recent ama, you characterize the inside of the proton as a roiling soup of quarks that are appearing and disappearing. But in quantum field theory, the state of something like a proton is static. There's nothing roiling, there's nothing appearing and disappearing within it. What really is there is just a fixed, constant status, static quantum field configuration. Tim kennedy says, i h've long been curious about the mass of the Proton.