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		danparsonson 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Physicists who want to ditch dark energy No, they'd call them protons; baryons are a class of particles, of which protons are a member.

elashri 2 days ago [–]

This is what a particle physicist use the term for. But for cosmologist on the question of matter composition they will use the term in different way. I was replying to exactly the quote from your reply.

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