People often try to visualize things like photons and subatomic particles, when it wouldn't be possible to do so. While they certainly exist, you can't bounce photons off of other photons or subatomic particles to see them. They don't have shape as we understand it.

Lagged signal propagation through a dynamic graph

The smallest-ever force field map of nature.

Physicists have mapped the forces acting inside a #proton, showing in unprecedented detail how #quarks—the tiny #particles within—respond when hit by high-energy #photons.

The new result breaks down #space and #time into a fine grid, allowing simulating how the strong force—the fundamental interaction that binds quarks into #protons and #neutrons—varies across different regions inside the proton.

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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-proton.html