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ianburrellyesterday at 5:50 PM1 replyview on HN

You can't split a quark, partial quarks doesn't exist. In fact, singular quarks can't exist, if you try to pull quark out of nucleus, it produces another quark to pair with. Quarks can be destroyed in particle accelerators collisions but those aren't components.

Also, all of the components of an atom, electrons and nucleus, have mass.


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eggn00dlesyesterday at 6:42 PM

top quarks exist as lone quarks and decay before they can pair

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