[This is part 5 of a series, which begins here.] In a previous post, I told you about how physicists use computers to study how the strong nuclear force combines certain elementary particles --- specifically quarks and anti-quarks and gluons --- into hadrons, such as protons and neutrons and pions. Computers can also be used…
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