First, the obvious: baryonic matter itself is a rounding error
This is a minor comment but I think it would be useful to define terms like “baryonic matter”. I’m much more well-versed in particle physics than the average person (I have taken one (1) class on particle physics, which I think puts me in a pretty high percentile on particle physics knowledge) but I don’t remember what “baryonic matter” means. It’s also non-trivial to find out what it means: Wikipedia says a baryon is defined as having an odd number of valence quarks, but I have no intuition for what that means either.
From context, I think what you mean by “baryonic matter” is “matter that forms atoms”, and you mean to exclude dark matter, black holes, and force-transmitter particles (photons etc.).
Yeah, that’s fair. I assumed people would know for some reason, but TBH I mix up baryons and hadrons quite often, so it’s not like I wouldn’t have been confused, too.
This is a minor comment but I think it would be useful to define terms like “baryonic matter”. I’m much more well-versed in particle physics than the average person (I have taken one (1) class on particle physics, which I think puts me in a pretty high percentile on particle physics knowledge) but I don’t remember what “baryonic matter” means. It’s also non-trivial to find out what it means: Wikipedia says a baryon is defined as having an odd number of valence quarks, but I have no intuition for what that means either.
From context, I think what you mean by “baryonic matter” is “matter that forms atoms”, and you mean to exclude dark matter, black holes, and force-transmitter particles (photons etc.).
Yeah, that’s fair. I assumed people would know for some reason, but TBH I mix up baryons and hadrons quite often, so it’s not like I wouldn’t have been confused, too.