> Quarks contribute less than 1% to the mass of protons and neutrons. This provokes an astonishing question: where does the other 99% of the mass of the visible universe come from? The answer lies in the gluon, and how it interacts with itself to bind quarks together inside hadrons.
For everyone that doesn't really understand it (I don't either), it's a physics thing. The article is talking about Gluons, which apparently are 99% of the mass of the universe. The article talks about discovering this through the particle colliders.
whynotmaybe 32 days ago [-]
On a funny note, if you were a kid in France/Belgium in the 80's, you know what a gluon is thanks the tv show Telechat. [1]
In this parody of TV news, the presenters (a cat and an ostrich) often talked to objects to understand their feeling and did so by interviewing the gluon of the object.
The gluon was the "soul" of any object.
> Ultraperipheral collisions are shedding light on gluon saturation, gluonic hotspots and nuclear shadowing.
"whut?" :-D
can someone eli5 the article and how it relates to other content we share on HN?
actionfromafar 32 days ago [-]
They are looking for clues to the The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. If we accept the premise HN is part of that, it should relate.
froh 31 days ago [-]
so particle researchers doing particle research, "CERN stuff".
vinyardmike's short spotlight on gluons (top level answer) was what I was looking for.
JumpCrisscross 32 days ago [-]
Where was the WWW invented?
froh 31 days ago [-]
at Tim Berners-Lee's desktop at cern. and darpa net at darpa.
that doesn't answer my question. I have no access as in almost no connection to what the article says and I've clumsily asked what it means...
For everyone that doesn't really understand it (I don't either), it's a physics thing. The article is talking about Gluons, which apparently are 99% of the mass of the universe. The article talks about discovering this through the particle colliders.
In this parody of TV news, the presenters (a cat and an ostrich) often talked to objects to understand their feeling and did so by interviewing the gluon of the object. The gluon was the "soul" of any object.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9chat
"whut?" :-D
can someone eli5 the article and how it relates to other content we share on HN?
vinyardmike's short spotlight on gluons (top level answer) was what I was looking for.
that doesn't answer my question. I have no access as in almost no connection to what the article says and I've clumsily asked what it means...