Thanks Cavediver and Son Goku, for, um,
fielding that question ...
But they can be revealed by the *missing* characteristics following a collision. Unfortunately, this is also how we can detect for extra dimensions, so it's not an easy task differentiating all of these possibilities. But with some good luck it can be done...
See SG's earlier post.
Son Goku writes:
Message 14: The first being and I'm not sure how to say this, the proton is not really "made" of three quarks. Rather the proton is a state produced by the interaction of about eleven different quantum fields. Three of those fields, if they didn't interact with the others, that is if they were free, would have excitations which we call quarks. So those fields are called the quark fields. However since the fields do interact, this picture isn't accurate and the fields never possess those excitations we call the quark particle
Virtual particles? So is the proton a particle or the intersection of these fields: wherever they intersect in the right pattern there be protons? I thought
Feynman demonstrated that particles were the best explanation?
And is this how we get to multi-dimensions with string theory?
Thanks.
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