#gluons

Scientists have long been on the lookout for 'glueballs', which are bound states of subatomic gluon particles on their own, without any quarks involved. Now, we may just have found them, hiding away in a particle accelerator experiment. It promises to be a hugely significant breakthrough in physics, but for the benefit of everyone without a PhD in the subject, we'll start at the beginning. The main job of gluons is to hold quarks in place and keep atoms stable – quarks being the building blocks that make up protons and neutrons. This role makes the gluon part of the strong nuclear force – one of the four fundamental forces of nature that hold the laws of physics together, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak nuclear force.

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You think atoms are like tiny solar systems—a nucleus in the center with electrons orbiting around it like planets. That picture is in every textbook, every science museum. But here's the problem: it's completely wrong. In this video, inspired by Richard Feynman's teaching style, we reveal what's ACTUALLY inside an atom, and why everything you learned in school was a comfortable lie.

Electrons don't orbit. They don't have definite positions. The atom is not mostly empty space. And at the bottom of it all, there are no "things"—just quantum fields, wave functions, and mathematical patterns that somehow produce the illusion of solid matter.

From the measurement problem to the Pauli exclusion principle, from quantum superposition to why atoms don't collapse, Feynman's approach strips away the cartoon pictures and forces you to confront the deeply strange reality of quantum mechanics.

If you thought you understood what matter is made of, prepare to have that understanding completely demolished.

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I was okay until I got to the charge of a gluon, where wikipedia whipped out this monstrosity:

What does this mean???

Also the reason I’m researching this is because I FORGOT I HAD A RESEARCH PROJECT DUE TOMORROW AND OH LOOK IT’S MIDNIGHT IT’S ACTUALLY DUE TODAY

For an average adult weighing 70-72 kg, 21% of their mass comes from electrons as they move across the Higgs field- Higgs field is basically what stops every object with a mass to travel at the speed of light ie- 299,792,486 ms^-1. what about the rest of the mass well it comes from your nucleons namely protons and neutrons which doesn't make any sense because unless a particle is moving at some speed or velocity it tends to interact with the Higgs field because then and only then it can stop it from reaching the speed of light; So, this resistance is what makes up the mass and a stationary object does not have any velocity.

nucleons are not fundamental particles ie they are made up of smaller particles- elementary particles named quarks. The study of Quarks and their interaction with gluons is known as quantum chromo-dynamics, Chromo is the greek for colors so we can infer that your weight has something to do with colors other than Higgs interactions meaning elementary particles have something called color charge, No way they are actually colored their wavelength is really small to be measured but it is a really good analogy for understanding especially for rookies like me. setting the integral rule for the existence of 'color-charge' the net result should be a white light for example a green a blue and a red quark would sum up to give white light and hence it can exist as a particle similarly a color with some other color which adds up and totally nullifies its effect, to sum up to a white light these so basically a quark with an antiquark this pair (of a quark and an antiquark) is known as a meson. quarks exist in gluon fields and their existence brings about flux tubes which is the only possible 'true void' in the universe. A proton usually composes of 2 up and a down quark; but, sometimes quarks might pop into existence out of nowhere and exist naturally inside the proton so there could be any odd number of quarks inside a nucleon.

so your mass is coming from these vacuum chambers in portions and neutrons? Of course no it is coming from the energy fluctuation on gluon fields in which these elementary particles exist meaning your mass is basically coming from energy. inferring from e=mc^2 this energy is huge.

In the beginning, said that the Higgs field stop particles from moving at the speed of light hence giving them mass, so if some particle approaches the spread of light its mass increases exponentially this is exactly the reason photons are identified to be massless objects and the massless objects tend to move at the speed of light.

What’s Really Inside A Proton?

“With dark matter, dark energy, and many other unexplained phenomena out there, the Standard Model alone cannot explain everything. While astrophysicists look “outward” to explore the Universe, particle physicists look “inward” at matter itself. In tandem, both fields help scientists understand the Universe’s structure, nature, rules, and composition.”

There are some perplexing things out there in the Universe, but there’s just as deep a Universe to explore inside the proton as there is out there beyond Earth. The deeper we look, the more puzzling and bizarre things get.