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minus-squareAffine ConnectionlinkEnglish9•8 months agoAs long as protons are the lowest mass baryon, there is nothing for them to decay to (barring violation of baryon number conservation).
minus-square@niktemadurlinkEnglish6•edit-28 months agoBut surely with a higher mass, they’ll be - to quote C3PO here - not entirely stable, with a new lower mass and that particle having another name.
As long as protons are the lowest mass baryon, there is nothing for them to decay to (barring violation of baryon number conservation).
But surely with a higher mass, they’ll be - to quote C3PO here - not entirely stable, with a new lower mass and that particle having another name.