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<p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Ok don’t ask me why, but I'm starting to get interested in chemistry and sub atomic physics, so I have (as usual) several dumb questions to ask.</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Below is an image from Brookhaven accelerator. It depicts the resulting particle collision of 2 gold ions.</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Maths tells us we can’t see anything smaller than a quark because we don’t have enough energy to peer below this level.</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Now from my understanding each proton and neutron has 3 quarks, Gold has 79 protons and 120 neutrons and 79 electrons.</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Protons =<span> </span>79 = <span> </span>237 quarks</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Electrons =<span> </span>79</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Neutrons =<span> </span>120 =<span> </span>360 quarks</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Total possible particles we should be seeing in 2 gold ions = 1352</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Sooo, what’s going on in this picture?</font></p><p style="margin:0cm0cm10pt" class="MsoNormal"><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/6/7/c665100d-12d9-4a1d-877a-1f6d8c5ca8a8.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#808080">-------------- </font></p><p align="center"><font size="1" color="#808080"><em>Let me start out with the standard disclaimer ... I am an idiot, I know almost nothing, I haven’t taken calculus, I don’t work for NASA, and I am one-quarter Bulgarian sheep dog. With that out of the way, I have several stupid questions... </em></font></p><p align="center"><font size="1" color="#808080"><em>*** A few months blogging can save a few hours in research ***</em></font></p> </div>