• Question: Which do you prefer protons or neutrons?

    Asked by xenon to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 3 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      If it weren’t for neutrons, the protons in an atom would repel each other so much that matter wouldn’t exist as we know it. For that reason, I prefer neutrons.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      I prefer protons because they are so positive, they not all neutral and boringly unopinionated like neutrons.

      Of course, without protons there would be nothing to attract electrons to an atom – so matter still wouldn’t exist in the way we know it!

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