Hi, Veeky Forums, I have a question about quarks... What do they look like? I know I technically wouldn't be able to see them, but what shape they have?
Quark discusion thread
Joshua Peterson
Angel Lewis
>physics
Andrew Ross
what does nothing look like?
same as that
Kayden Roberts
Also, is there any physical equation to determinate their size and or shape?
Parker Johnson
But quarks are particles, and they even have mass, so they should have a shape, unless they are waves
Tyler Cruz
can you prove that?
Christopher Young
Nope, that's why i'm asking you? are Quarks waves?
Colton Garcia
Things only "look" like something because photon's bounce off them into our eyes. Quarks are too small for that to work so you can't really talk about what they "look" like.
Hunter Ortiz
>quarks are particles, and they even have mass, so they should have a shape
Should they?
Asher Garcia
But, are Quarks particles or waves? or both?
Samuel Anderson
Quarks are quarks
There isn't anything macroscopic that they behave like
Nathan Sanchez
vision is a phenomena that occurs on macroscopic scales... we can't see them. they don't look like anything to us because that is impossible.
Tyler Jones
Then how do we know that they exist?
Cooper Hughes
Because we can scatter things off them.
Cooper Gray
Shoudnt the scattering pattern give us a rough idea of their shape?
Jordan Bailey
>are Quarks waves?
everything is
Josiah Hall
this is retarded. thats like saying 'well we can't see bacteria therefore they don't have a shape'
quarks literally do have a shape as they have mass.
Luis Hall
But we can see bacteria
Adrian Jenkins
Bacteria are at least 12 orders of magnitude bigger than quarks (1e-6 vs 1e-18)
That comparable to your length vs the distance of Saturn from the Sun.
Samuel Wilson
Particles are a meme. I do mean that literally. They don't have "shapes".
Everything you know and interact with are fields. Fields are the real dealio, not particles.
Luis Diaz