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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by BurningFrog on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:30PM (#28013678)
Then I wonder if this "particle" is just some components that takes 10^-21 seconds to bounce away from each other after colliding?
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Re:New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered at CERN by ShinyRice on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:59AM (#28017019)
They don't just "bounce away", some of its quarks turn into different ones through interactions, and that is enough to class that process as a decay.

Also, quarks can't bounce away from each other. Lone quarks do not and cannot exist in nature, as far as we know.

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