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Hi,
A Neutron according to what I just read is a two downers and one upper quark.
A Protin according to what I just read, is a two uppers and one downer quark.
I had once said what you said, that a Nutron is nothing more than a proton, two up quarks and one downer quark, with and electron. Years ago, when I made that guess, it turned out to be wrong.
Decay I don't know yet. I will look at that. (Great Quantum Mechanics. I am supposed to know it, but missed it somehow)
LOVE,
Yes, a proton is uud and a neutron is udd. When a neutron decays into a proton, an electron and an antineutrino, what's actually happening is that one of the down quarks decays into an up quark + electron + antineutrino.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton
"However, protons are known to transform into neutrons through the process of electron capture (also called inverse beta decay)."
If a proton requires an electron to transform into a neutron - then a neutron has an electron. So any proton claimed to have only 3 quarks - is as valid as any theory claiming a neutron has only three quarks. Because with inverse Beta Decay (creating one - not destroying it) it takes both a proton (3 quarks) and an electron (supposedly no quarks) to make a neutron. So if making a neutron requires both a proton and an electron - then a neutron is composed of both a proton and an electron, not just three quarks.
Suddenly we have gone from talking about a single neutron - into an atomic structure of it's own that includes a proton and an electron. So in every atom in which a neutron is posited to be - it must be a proton and an electron in their own binding system which appears as a neutral particle.
IMO a neutron is much more - it acts as a Faraday Cage to internal charges. It is the balancing force between all the particles in a system when more than a single proton or electron exists.
I reject being told it takes a proton and an electron to make a neutron - but a neutron has no protons or electrons. I simply reject such contradictions.
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