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Why Protons Are Still Such a Mystery to Scientists

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Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Protons make up most of the regular matter int he universe, but we're still figuring out a few of their quirks... Or quarks. Join Hank Green and learn why protons are still so mysterious to scientists, and what we've discovered about them so far! Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow #SciShow #science #education ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04998-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02237-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02186-w https://newscientist.com/article/2334076-physicists-surprised-to-discover-the-proton-contains-a-charm-quark/ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/proton-charm-quark-up-down-particle-physics https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0370269380903640 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.082001 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahep/2015/231547/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-long-quest-reveals-details-of-the-protons-inner-antimatter-20210224/ https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20210412a/full/ https://pdg.lbl.gov/2022/tables/contents_tables.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg https://home.web.cern.ch/resources/video/physics/z-e-e-collision-event-animation https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/theoretical-physics-quark-and-gluon-subatomic-royalty-free-image/1383824896?phrase=quark https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/shimmering-shiny-particles-beautiful-background-loop-stock-footage/1369664635?phrase=particles&adppopup=true https://home.web.cern.ch/resources/image/computing/computing-images-gallery https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/theoretical-physics-quark-and-gluon-simulation-3d-royalty-free-image/1383824752?phrase=quark%20physics&adppopup=true https://home.web.cern.ch/resources/video/experiments/cms-ls2-footage-4k Welp...Maybe We Were Wrong About Protons The charmed life of the proton

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