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Physicists map the incredibly powerful forces inside a proton | They found that the forces inside can get as powerful as the pull of 10 elephants
To achieve this, a team from the University of Adelaide used a powerful computational technique known as lattice quantum chromodynamics. Directly observing the proton's constituent quarks and...
Directly observing the proton's constituent quarks and gluons is extremely challenging, so the researchers developed a novel approach that essentially "breaks down space and time into a fine grid," as one team member described it. The team discovered that these forces are extraordinarily intense, reaching up to half a million Newtons – even at scales thousands of times smaller than a single atomic nucleus. A PhD student whose calculations drove the research noted that these force maps offer an entirely new way to understand the proton's intricate internal dynamics and its behavior in high-energy particle collisions.
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