Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (2022)

> The results suggested that in even higher-energy collisions, the proton would appear as a cloud made up almost entirely of gluons. The gluon dandelion is exactly what QCD predicts.

I find the proton as a gluon dandelion cloud enthralling

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39374020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262637

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The implication of this framing is that neutrons are considerably simpler.

I find that rather surprising.

As an expert in air conditioning repair… a thing is a dynamically maintained waveform of interacting modes. The proton demonstrates that reality is resonance… music, not machinery… processes over objects. The universe isn’t built from particles, it’s built from oscillatory relations which remain stable. The first utterance set the constraint that selects the allowed oscillations that gave rise to structure from undifferentiated oscillatory potential.