Physicist Marek Karliner of University of
Chicago has made a recent discovery in Subatomic physics. It was found that when two tiny
particles called bottom quarks fused together, they created another subatomic
particle called a nucleon, alongside a large amount of energy. This energetic
event clocked in at 138 MeV, which is 8 times more powerful than the 17.6 MeV
individual fusion that occurs inside a hydrogen bomb.
However, this explosion
will have no military application due to the short period of time that the
bottom quarks exists: 1 picosecond, the same amount of time it takes light to
travel half a single grain of salt. After that picosecond, it was found that the bottom quarks
decayed into less energetic up-quarks.
As of yet, these reactions are still theoretical as they have yet to be tested
in a lab, but the implications they hold could prove to be potentially fruitful in future works.
Read more about this fascinating story at:
https://www.livescience.com/
https://www.livescience.com/
Or read the full study at: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24289
Article Written by T. Correia
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