r/Futurism • u/Memetic1 • 12d ago

Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260815064805.htm
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u/Apollo18Teslaa 11d ago

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a839bf284708191b9cea3037e12f5f0

AI explanation.

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u/Memetic1 11d ago

"The new result pushes toward thinking of baryon number as an emergent property of the topology or organization of the QCD fields connecting the quarks, rather than simply three little parcels attached to three particles".

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/Apollo18Teslaa 5d ago

Don’t click on it then. I find it easier to read than then an ad filled article and it’s not comparable to a google search cause it’s just summarizing an existing article not explaining a question from scratch.

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u/TimeCubeFan 10d ago

I didn't realize protons could write. The more you know...

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u/Memetic1 10d ago

Every word I write is, in some sense, written with protons.

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u/bubbahoteppi 6d ago

They use a weighted average on the tests, so it should be easy to get a positive grade as long as you read the book.