Protons
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To produce such a particle in the laboratory requires revving up
protons
to nearly the speed of light and smashing them together, which the Large Hadron Collider at CERN accomplishes trillions of times per second.
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When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that
protons
begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table.
They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me.
You probably already know everything is made up of little tiny things called atoms or even that each atom is made up of even smaller particles called protons, neutrons and electrons.
In the center of the atom is something called the nucleus, which contains
protons
and neutrons, and on the outside, you'd see electrons.
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