Actually, radiation isn't neccesarily energy. Alpha particles, a form of radiation, are actually just helium nuclei, and beta particles are neutrons, another subatomic particle. Radiation isn't always energy, just as in this case. Protons have mass (in the real world, anyway), and therefore are not energy.
Doolittle, you can actually see the protons smashing together at high-speed making PLUT/URAN at one of my saves
Exactly. Subatomic particles are considered radiation. And radiation particles are considered energy particles The atomic number is how many protons are in the atom's nucleus.
Protons are actually subatomic particles that determine the characteristics of matter, not energy particles. Hydrogen is one proton and one electron in real life, too; helium is 2 protons, 2 neutrons, and 2 electrons, etc.
well actually, prot is an energy particle, but the theory (that has been proven) is that by combining protons at a very high speed will come together and make matter
Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense now that I think about the fact that prot is actually matter, not energy, even though it is treated a lot like it in tpt.