How to make a universe – with Harry Cliff
Ri Science Podcast
The Nuclear Fusion of Protons and Neutrons to Make Helium
Nuclear fusion of protons and neutrons to make helium. But where did the ingredients that make up all the other elements ultimately come from? Well, in the 19 sixties experiments were done using a large particle accelerator outside San Francisco. And what they found as the angles that the electrons came off at suggested the existence of smaller objects inside protions and neutrons. That proton neutrons were not fundamental, that they actually had sub they are made of particles called quarks. If protons ad neutrons are made of quarks, then that suggests that perhaps they were assembled from quar.
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