Mysterious Quantum Phenomenon Lets Us Peek Inside an Atom's Heart [View all]

Using the powerful Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, scientists have shown how it's possible to glean precise details on the arrangement of gold's protons and neutrons using a kind of quantum interference never before seen in an experiment.
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"But in this case, we're talking about mapping out features on the scale of femtometers – quadrillionths of a meter – the size of an individual proton."

In textbook terms, the anatomy of a proton can be described as a trio of fundamental building blocks called quarks bound together by the exchange of a force-carrying particle called a gluon.

Were we to zoom in and observe this collaboration firsthand, we'd see nothing so neat. Particles and antiparticles pop in and out of existence in a seething foam of statistical madness, where the rules on particle distribution are anything but consistent.

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-quantum-phenomenon-lets-us-peek-inside-an-atoms-heart

Well written article for those concerned with things small. Personally, I think the quantum particles are oscillating backward and forward in time, but what do I know? It's just me, asked for the answer to 2+2 and saying the cube root of 64.