Of Particular Significance

Some Particles Decay, Some Particles Don’t

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POSTED BY Matt Strassler

ON 10/12/2011

A couple of months back I wrote an article explaining intuitively why most types of particles decay.  If you read that article you may be left wondering why a few types of particles, including the ones out of which we’re made, don’t decay.  An answer to that question has now arrived, in the form of a new article:“Most Particles Decay – Yet Some Don’t!”.  I hope you find it useful, and as always feel free to ask me to clarify points that don’t make sense to you.

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