Comment by mcherm
1 month ago
Where are you getting that implication? I didn't see anything in the article suggesting that neutrons were simple and I would share your skepticism if someone claimed they were. The fact that neutrons can spontaneously decay into protons (plus other stuff) suggests otherwise.
The title implies it directly.
If you saw an article titled “My Nana is the nicest person you could possibly meet”, would you interpret that to be a statement that your own grandmother is considerably less nice?
That is what the author would be implying, yes. Though, you may quibble over "considerable".
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Because the failure to write about neutrons is conspicuous considering that they're always together in nuclei, similarly composed of three quarks etc.