Comment by undersuit

2 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay

I need to read the article, but yeah protons might not be stable, we just need to wait a long time to find out.

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mianos  2 years ago

And free quarks within stars in conditions where they are not confined. They can exist unconfined for a real short time. At the start of the big bang there were a lot of them.

  • lagadu  2 years ago

    Quark stars, a type of star whose density sits between neutron stars and black holes are theorized to exist, though we have no conclusive observations of one yet.