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Re:Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could ... by calamari4065 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:10PM (#39376896)
No matter what arbitrary value you assign to the electric charge, quarks will always be 1/3 of that. That's the problem in question, not the absolute value.
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Re:Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could ... by twic on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @08:15PM (#39377951)
So quarks have a charge of 2 or -1, and a two of the former and one of the latter make a proton, which therefore has charge 3. An electron is elementary, but also has charge 3. The question is: that seems like a weird coincidence, how come it's like that?
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