Proton
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Hydrogen is hydrogen because it has just one
proton
, carbon is carbon because it has six, gold is gold because it has 79, and so on.
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The
proton
is obviously made of a whole bunch of little particles; this was more or less known.
The experiments that were going on were very simple: you simply take the proton, and you hit it really sharply with an electron.
Just think of the
proton
as an assemblage, a swarm, of little particles."
I suppose it is, so I won't say "revolution," but it certainly evolved very, very deeply our understanding of the proton, and of particles beyond that.
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