https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1305.3510/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11181199urn:hackerpapers:mention:1305.3510:11181199Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:23:20 GMT<p>It gets a bit more complicated than that. Matt Strassler has a couple relevant articles on his blog site. The first goes deeper than the 3-quark simplification. &quot;What&#x27;s a proton? First and foremost, it’s a mess. A total mess&quot; http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/largehadronc... The second digs into both protons and neutrons &quot;So there are reasons to go further and describe things as I have elsewhere on this website: a proton is made from three quarks (two up quarks and a down quark), lots of gluons, and lots of quark-antiquark pairs (mostly up quarks and down quarks, but also even a…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1305.3510/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>nucl-th