25. Experiments Probe Proton’s Substructure (1969)

Marvin
1 min readNov 10, 2018

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Electron-proton scattering experiments reported by Friedman, Kendall, Taylor and their colleagues give the first concrete evidence that protons are not fundamental particles. Instead, their data support the idea that protons are comprised of smaller particles, which we now know as quarks.

Frank Taylor take about proton-proton collisions:

And what is quarks:

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