https://phys.org/news/2018-05-subatomic-particle-mechanical-property-reveals.html

Inside every proton in every atom in the universe is a pressure cooker environment that surpasses the atom-crushing heart of a neutron star. That's according to the first measurement of a mechanical property of subatomic particles, the pressure distribution inside the proton, which was carried out by scientists at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

The nuclear physicists found that the proton's building blocks, the quarks, are subjected to a pressure of 100 decillion Pascal (10^35) near the center of a proton, which is about 10 times greater than the pressure in the heart of a neutron star. The result was recently published in the journal Nature.

 

Does this mean I'm going to have to cancel my vacation plans in case a bunch of protons might explode like the volcano in Hawaii?

 

Does this mean I'm going to have to cancel my vacation plans in case a bunch of protons might explode like the volcano in Hawaii?

Take your vacation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay

According to such theories, the proton has a half-life of about 10^31 to 10^36 years and decays into a positron and a neutral pion that itself immediately decays into 2 gamma ray photons:

 

Take your vacation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay

According to such theories, the proton has a half-life of about 10^31 to 10^36 years and decays into a positron and a neutral pion that itself immediately decays into 2 gamma ray photons:

Wheeeewww - Glad to hear that. I (and probably no one else) will be around that long!!!