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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

AMA | October 2024

10957.7 - 10977.354 Sean Carroll

So when you smash two protons together, the things that actually collide and produce a spray of new particles are not the whole big floppy bag of protons. They are the individual pieces inside, which Richard Feynman called partons. Murray Gell-Mann was very mad at Richard Feynman for calling that. He thought they should have just called them quarks.

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