Timeline for Why is free neutron unstable but free proton is stable?
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May 5, 2017 at 0:51 | vote | accept | ashpool | ||
Feb 19, 2017 at 16:15 | answer | added | Joshua | timeline score: 2 | |
May 22, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | Nikos M. | Another reason might be the charge conservation and the matter-anti-matter asymmetry (conjecturing here). Neutron do not have to preserve charge thus have less conditions to withhold. There are more things in reality than your philosophy discusses Horatius :) | |
May 21, 2014 at 11:18 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | It's not "why," it's "how." First we observe the instability (or, depending on the particle in question, predict it from previous laws and equations derived from other observations) and then we match our models to the observations. | |
May 21, 2014 at 8:59 | comment | added | John Rennie | Related: Why is the (free) neutron lifetime so long? | |
May 21, 2014 at 1:25 | review | Low quality answers | |||
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May 21, 2014 at 1:09 | comment | added | Javier | Short answer: the proton is the lightest baryon. Because of conservation of energy and baryon number, there's nothing it can decay to. | |
May 21, 2014 at 1:07 | history | asked | ashpool | CC BY-SA 3.0 |