Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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Physics, Life Sciences, Science

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Quanta Science podcast.
0:07.0	Each episode we bring you stories about developments in science and mathematics.
0:11.0	I am Susan Vallett.
0:13.0	Physicists have begun to explore the proton as if it were a subatomic planet.
0:18.0	How are they doing it and what have they found? That's next.
0:24.9	It's season three of the joy of why, and I still have a lot of questions. Like, what is this
0:30.4	thing we call time? Why does altruism exist? And where is Jan 11? I'm here. Astrophysicist
0:37.1	and co-host.
0:37.9	Ready for anything.
0:39.0	That's right.
0:39.6	I'm bringing in the A team.
0:41.3	So brace yourselves.
0:42.6	Get ready to learn.
0:43.8	I'm Janelle Levin.
0:45.1	I'm Steve Strogatz.
0:46.4	And this is...
0:47.5	Quantum Magazine's podcast, The Joy of Why.
0:50.4	New episodes drop every other Thursday.
1:00.7	Cut Away Manx. Why. New episodes drop every other Thursday. Cutaway maps display new found details of the particle's interior. The proton's core features pressures more intense than in any other known
1:07.1	form of matter. Halfway to the surface, clashing vortices of force push against each other,
1:13.8	and the planet as a whole is smaller than previous experiments had suggested. The experimental
1:19.9	investigations mark the next stage in the quest to understand the particle that anchors every atom
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