What color are protons?

Answer 1

É ponto pacífico e plenamente sabido que os prótons bem como os elétrons tem cores iridescentes no ponto intermediário entre a bissetriz e o raio que o parta. Pontos amarelados tem sido testemunhados por cegos também. De vez em quando surgem colorações esverdeadas nos pontos contíguos entre o raio mestre e a tangência bilateral. Salvador Dali já tentou, sem sucesso, catalogar as diferentes cores apresentadas pelos protons, mas não obteve sucesso, devido a que essas cores apresentam uma freqüencia de onda desconhecida, indo além do limite perceptivel pelos aparelhos mais sensíveis em voga atualmente. Mas eu sei qual é a cor dos prótons. É sem dúvida nenhuma, cor de burro quando foge. Na hipótese, (muito remota) de eu ter cometido um engano, então a cor dos prótons só poderá ser cor de buraco de cerca.

There is no reference about the proton's color anywhere.

Answer 2

In Physics the term color may indicates two things, first the common understanding of colors, second, especially when speaking about particle physics, color may refer to a property of the Quarks.

in the first case, Protons, Neutrons and Electrons doesn't have a color. Since color is waves with a wavelength in the visible range, and the wavelength of electrons is extremely small (far smaller than visible waves) same issue applies to neutrons and protons.

in the second case, which is excluded from this question since color is only a property for quarks. While Quarks have color, the particles they make up are colorless.

there's two types of hadrons which are baryons and mesons. Every baryon is made up of three quarks and every meson is made of a quark and an anti-quark, all quarks have the same quantum numbers for such properties as spin, size,... and according to the Pauli Exclusion Principle which states that no two identical objects can occupy the same place, it is impossible for one particle to contain two of the same kind of quark. But the proton contains two up quarks and one down quark. Because of this contradiction, it was assumed that quarks must have another property with six manifestations. This new property was the "color".

The six manifestations are :

red, blue, green, anti-red, anti-blue, and anti-green.

The anti-colors belong to the anti-quarks. To obey the Exclusion Principle, all three quarks in a baryon are of different colors and a meson must contain a colored quark and a quark of the corresponding anti-color. The red, blue, and green quarks present in every particle come together to make a colorless particle. A meson, on the other hand is composed of a red quark and an anti-red anti-quark, who's colors cancel each other out.

• the three subatomic particles are protons, neutrons and electrons.
• electrons do not have colour. the colour seen is:
• when energy is supplied to an atom, the electrons are in an excited state. since it is more convenient for the electrons to remain in the ground state, they fall back to the energy levels of the ground state. the energy absorbed is now emitted in the form of light energy, with the difference in colour being the different energy levels at which light is given out.
• protons should have colour. this is because protons, even though they are subatomic particles, are further constituted of quarks, which are differentiated on the basis of colour. therefore, protons have colour.
• neutrons are also made up of quarks, hence the same reason is applied here.
• nucleons are made up of coloured particles and therefore have colour.

Answer 3

Original Answer: the concept of color has no relevance to subatomic particles

Color IS a property that quarks (a type of subatomic particle) do have (along with anti color) and a Google search of color charge will link you to a wikipedia page all about this.

By the laws of colour conservation, neutrons and protons are colorless overall, but contain 3 quarks and between the quarks there is a red and anti red charge, a blue / anti blue and a green / anti green charge so that overall the proton / neutron is colorless.

Electrons, which are fundamental and thus not composed of quarks have no color by definition.

Answer 4

same as any other = none, because too small for absorbing lightwaves

Answer 5

A proton has no color. The concept of color has no meaning at the subatomic level.

Answer 6

Subatomic particles do not have color. They are too small to interact with light waves. Protons can be detected, but not "seen."

Answer 7

Protons do not possess a color.

Only quarks do, and even that word is an amusing use of the word.

Answer 8

all protons are generally colourless