The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by gluons. It would seem, therefore, that it should not be difficult to reproduce all the properties of atomic nuclei hitherto observed in nuclear experiments using only quarks and gluons. However, it is only now that physicists, including those from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, have succeeded in doing this.
    • StellarExtract@lemm.ee
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      28 days ago

      My understanding (as a layman) is that a theoretical model has been developed which is able to predict the positions of the individual quarks within an at-rest atomic nucleus. Pretty cool!

        • StellarExtract@lemm.ee
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          28 days ago

          Pretty sure that’s the case and it’s just a deliberately misleading clickbait headline. The article and the paper both don’t reference anything about creating an actual image.