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Blog #1 - What would happen to you if you ate a whole bunch of protons? Would it be safe?

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Hello world! This is my first ever blog and I am very excited about writing this post.  To understand what would happen if you ate a whole bunch of protons, let us first see and understand the structure of a human tongue. Papillae of a human tongue A tongue consists of thousands of papillae or projections. There are various types of papillae. Various types of papillae Around each of these papillae are hundreds of small structures which are called as taste buds. These taste buds are only few cells big and are responsible for taste perception. An Image of 2 overlapping Mammalian Tongue Papillae taken with an SEM. The pink projections are bacteria. The tiny, purple colored, finger-like projections are the microvilli of the taste buds. Taste buds on a Papilla Cro