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ameliustoday at 2:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

Meanwhile there are quarks inside every regular atom moving at speeds like 0.99995c ...


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Jblx2today at 8:00 PM

If the spatial extent of the proton is not infinite, this would imply that the charged quarks making up the proton are accelerating. Why aren't these quarks then emitting electromagnetic radiation, thus slowing down? I thought electrons were essentially standing waves around the nucleus, and thus not accelerating. Maybe there is a good youtube video explainer? Seems like there would also be an associated temperature and blackbody radiation of these quarks.

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gcanyontoday at 3:53 PM

Interesting -- does that have any macroscopic/real world impact?

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