Why can't we split quarks and leptons? if we could what

>>8250540
ur mom

>>8250540
>Why can't we split quarks and leptons?
Leptons are fundamental, ie they aren't made up of anything. Quarks have a property called "confinement" so if you tried to separate them you end up just spontaneously producing another quark pair.

>>8250540
Considering physicists invent new subatomic particles every other day, I don't see why not :^)

>>8250540
Decades ago people thought atoms were indivisible into their smaller parts. In a few years we'll see what they're made of anon.

>>8250554
people have split Quarks? the new pair is identical? how many times can you do this?

>>8250566
Well what happens is that you create jets of mesons, so quark/antiquark pairs.

>>8250554
How the fuck do they detect or measure that kinda thing ? What kinda data tells you that they have split the quark or tell you they are identical

>>8250574
>Try and remove a quark
>Create a jet of mesons instead

>>8250566
Anon means splitting up bound-together quark pairs or triplets.

Like rubber bands, the bonds of the Strong Force keeping quarks bound into configurations like protons store energy, and it you have to put in quite a lot of energy to pull two quarks apart.

Because of the unusual behavior of the Strong Force, if you pull them too far apart, that stretched bond actually 'snaps' - its stored energy becomes enough that it can actually pop out a particle, since mass and energy are the same thing.

As it happens, that energy is enough to create a new quark, and a bound quark pair's a much more preferred, low-energy state than a single quark. So there's no way to ever isolate a single quark from a proton or something; any attempt necessarily also pops out a partner for it.

(And because of charge & other conservation laws, it's also impossible to make lone quarks in collisions or anything, because you have to produce an antiquark of the same color to make the quantum numbers balance out. These exist most stably as a bound meson, so you just get one of those instead.)

>>8250540
This board can't even explain why an electron doesn't get stuck to a proton, wtf are you thinking making this thread?

Preons are inside quarks btw

>>8250675
But if we actually studies physics, where would we get all the time to shitpost on /sci/?

Quarks and leptons don't exist, particle physics is an elaborate troll.

>>8250687
Everything is a phonon >:)