Proton Decay: The Physicist's Horoscope

Proton Decay: The Physicist's Horoscope

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Might the proton decay in other places or at other times? Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, experimentalists have ruled it out—or rather, put lower limits on its mean lifetime of about 1034 years. That's 20 orders of magnitude greater than the age of the universe.

🤯 Does the universe's building block, the proton, *decay*? Scientists sought proof, but it lasts >10³⁴ years—far longer than the universe itself! ✨ #particlephysics #protondecay #GUTs


Source: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-proton-decay.html