The Nature of Chakra Particles

Aburame Tetsumaru had long known that Chakra displayed a particle-like nature in the microscopic world, but only today did he learn that Chakra was unlike light and did not possess wave-particle duality.

The wave-like behavior observed before was not an intrinsic property of Chakra, but the result of its stress response.

Chakra Particles were far smaller than atoms, though their exact size could not be precisely measured.

In the microscopic world, molecules were composed of atoms.

The simplest atomic structure consisted of one proton and one electron. More complex atoms could contain dozens of protons and neutrons, along with many layers of electrons.

Neutrons, meanwhile, could be split into electrons and protons.

Electrons were something Aburame Tetsumaru could neither break apart nor understand. For now, it was a mystery he could only set aside.

Protons, however, could be gradually broken down into three Quarks with different properties.

Most remarkably, although these three Quarks had different properties, those properties were not stable.

There was an even smaller particle called a Gluon. It leaped and drifted among the three protons, and every time it entered a Quark, it imparted its own traits to that Quark, changing the Quark's properties.

Most remarkably, Gluons could alter Quark properties, yet the properties of the Gluons themselves were constantly shifting.

No, rather, the Gluons themselves were constantly breaking apart and recombining.

With every quantum moment that passed, a Gluon split into a Sea Quark Pair, then recombined into a Gluon in the next quantum moment.

Every Gluon produced by recombination was brand-new, with randomly generated properties.

What properties it would have was uncertain, but it was certain to change.

Fortunately, the Gluons' volatility did not manifest at the proton scale.

Aburame Tetsumaru could not yet determine the true reason. Gluons were simply too small, far beyond