Gravity Helps Show Strong Force Strength in the Proton
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Except, not. The number of "quarks" isn't even a constant.
you might as well teach kids that particles actually exist independently or that gravity is made by mass. oh wait, we do!
while you're at it, hammer years of decontextualized proofs into my kid's adolescent brain so he totally loses his taste for math.
people deserve better, so, no, dude, it's not hostile equivocation, and i suspect you're actually projecting. i wonder what immediate reaction you have when people tell you you're participating in harming people, mr debate expert.
In my teens I wanted to learn about computer graphics, took me a while (years) to find out that would be matrices and what they do to vectors. Fortunately, from what my niece says, this seems to have become a thing people can actually learn now in the UK during secondary school.
The quantum wave functions necessary for it to even matter that a proton or neutron isn't literally just three quarks, involves maths I'm currently trying to teach myself on Brilliant.org having not at any point needed it despite having just turned 40.
Bluntly, the only time I ever bother with anything more complex than the Bohr model is when I toy with ideas such as "what would it take for a Casimir cavity's negative energy effect to result in mass reduction exceeding the natural mass of the material it is made from?"[0] — to which the answer at my level of comprehension is "not only is this not possible if you replaced every electron with a tauon, it still isn't going to work in a lasagna phase neutronium[1]".
[0] AKA "can you use Casimir cavities to make a warp drive? No, no you cannot" https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/can-a-casim... — though note also that I was using an extremely simplified version of the Casimir equation that I assume stops being a good approximation when the wavelengths being excluded imply energy sufficient for pair production events.
I invite you to do something I bet you've never done before. This week, as you are interacting with people in real life, watch their faces carefully throughout the entire conversation.
You're going to learn something about yourself. You're not going to enjoy it. But then the question is, what are you going to do about it?
"Here we provide evidence for intrinsic charm by exploiting a high-precision determination of the quark–gluon content of the nucleon3 based on machine learning and a large experimental dataset."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04998-2
this is a tentative model of a Machine Learning "thought experiment". physical observation of the phenomenon must be confirmed before this is cannonized as scientific fact.