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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are any particle physicists particularly concerned with matryoshkas?

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  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I would guess it refers to the fact that we used to think atoms were the smallest things, and then we found protons, neutrons, and electrons. then we thought those were the smallest things until we found quarks and gluons. and maybe some day we’ll find out that there’s something smaller inside quarks

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    • TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nogs

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s probably it.

      and maybe some day we’ll find out that there’s something smaller inside quarks

      I don’t think particle physicists in 2026 wake up in a cold sweat worried about preons. We are still taking measurements, but I don’t think theoreticians have any reason to invoke it – and IIRC its predictions have been outright contradicted experimentally.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      idk if you can get smaller than vibrations in a field. At least not without a different conceptual model. But I guess that’s always been the problem anyway

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    • Aquila@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I saw it as to see smaller and smaller you need higher energy photons. To get down to the planck length the smallest possible size the amount of energy you need to resolve that creates black holes

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    • silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      electrons appear smooth still but I think quarks appear to have some structure to them… so yeah maybe more dolls still

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  • microcapybara@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe a joke about splitting an atom if you keep going far enough? Never mind that splitting a single atom releases an inconsequential amount of energy.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Maybe the idea that there is always a smaller identical one which doesn’t make sense either since as much as there are smallest particles, there is a smallest matryoshka

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  • lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This seems wrong to me now but at first I thought of the demon core and its layered enclosure.

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  • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d guess that’s also how thermonuclear weapons are layers of conventional chemical, fission, and fusion material encased within each other like that. All these things come to mind.

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