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To: z3n

Also:

“Beauty quarks, sometimes called bottom quarks, are fundamental particles, which in turn make up bigger particles. There are six flavors of quarks that are dubbed up, down, strange, charm, beauty/bottom and truth/top. Up and down quarks, for example, make up the protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus.

Beauty quarks are unstable, living on average just for about 1.5 trillionths of a second before decaying into other particles.”

If they decay into other particles, how can they be fundamental particles? The article seems to contradict itself.


18 posted on 10/29/2021 6:35:31 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: MRadtke

I think this is just bad physics terminology like spin not really meaning spin. Any time a particle changes into other particles the physicists call it decay.


26 posted on 10/29/2021 7:59:09 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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