Scientists eager to go beyond the Standard Model have thus pinned a great degree of hope on protons ultimately kicking the bucket. Of great import to physicists and astrophysicists alike, the Standard Model is unable to account for dark matter (thought to comprise some 85% of the universe's matter), along with properties of elementary particles called neutrinos, and it doesn't at all address the force of gravity. Doing so would upend the decades-old Standard Model that powerfully captures the behavior of matter at its smallest scales, but is ultimately incomplete.
THE LONG DARK DECAY PLUS
At last discovering the phenomenon would be a breakthrough into new physics, enabling theoreticians to compose a so-called Grand Unified Theory that brings together three of nature's fundamental forces-namely electromagnetism plus the strong and weak forces-as aspects of the same, single force. It is a composite particle, meaning it is built of truly fundamental units of matter (in this case, three quarks), and every other known composite particle decays into these fundamental units.Ĭonfirming proton decay is not just a check-the-box, physics-for-physics'-sake kind of quest. Yet physicists are pretty convinced that the proton must inevitably crumble.
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