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Despite sharing similar physical properties(neutron and proton having little variation in masses, protons and neutron being made up of quarks, both elementary particles are held together by the strong force) why is the decay time for like a neutron 10 minutes and the decay time for like a proton 10^32 years? (Sorry the title of the thread is suppose to read: (the wide disparity between the decay time of a neutron and a proton)