To: Momaw Nadon
What happened to protons and neutrons? When I was a kid we learned that a cloud of electrons orbited around a clump of protons and neutrons.
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Protons and neutrons are made up of quarks. Currently they don't think electrons are made of anything smaller.
13 posted on
03/11/2004 5:23:55 AM PST by
ahayes
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
we learned that a cloud of electrons orbited around a clump of protons and neutrons. They're still there as general classification systems in chemistry, but they have structure.
63 posted on
03/11/2004 9:26:16 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
No offense, but how long ago were you in school? Quarks are a relatively recent discovery, and you probably wouldn't have been taught about them in school until oh, the early-mid seventies, at the earliest.
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