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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.
It contains protons, neutrons and electrons.
The protons and neutrons live inside of the nucleus, and contain almost all of the mass of the atom.
We have an electromagnetic field around the Earth, and it's constantly bombarded by high-energy particles, like protons.
The net charge on an ion is equal to the number of protons in the ion minus the number of electrons.
There's about a hundred of these basic ingredients, and they're all made from three smaller particles: protons, neutrons, electrons.
In 2015, the LHC will almost double the energy of the colliding protons, and these more powerful collisions will allow us to explore further the particle world, and we will certainly learn much more.
At that time, we were working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research at the world's largest particle collider, which collides protons, by the way.
Well, it was discovered that one of the tricks that enzymes have evolved to make use of, is by transferring subatomic particles, like electrons and indeed protons, from one part of a molecule to another via quantum tunneling.
The two white balls in the middle are protons, and you can see that it's a double hydrogen bond.
It can happen that these two protons can hop over.
If the two strands of DNA then separate, leading to the process of replication, and the two protons are in the wrong positions, this can lead to a mutation.
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.
A few seconds after the Big Bang, it was hotter still, hot enough to overpower the forces that usually hold protons and neutrons together in atomic nuclei.
Further back, microseconds after the Big Bang, and the protons and neutrons were only just beginning to form from quarks, one of the fundamental building blocks of the standard model of particle physics.
But the way we study the fundamental particles, as well as the forces by which they interact, involves creating them fleetingly, colliding protons in our accelerators and capturing a trace of them as they zoom off near light speed.
In the collisions between two protons at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, billions of particles and antiparticles are produced every second.
And what defines each element is the number of protons in the nucleus.
Hydrogen has one proton, helium, two protons, lithium, three protons, and so on.
The identity of an atom is determined only by the number of protons in its nucleus.
We can't see protons, neutrons, or electrons.
The extreme pressure of a collapsing star is so high, that subatomic protons and electrons are forced together in the core, forming neutrons.
Nuclear radiation, on the other hand, originates in the atomic nucleus, where protons repel each other due to their mutually positive charges.
However, some combinations of protons and neutrons, known as isotopes, remain unstable, or radioactive.
They have little electrons that swarm around a central nucleus with neutrons and protons.
Even the neutrons and protons have smaller particles inside of them known as quarks.
And we collide them with another beam of protons going in the opposite direction.
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