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  • Look man, the more I hear this argument the more I want to get into a Ph D program to figure out a better way to describe how fucking weird the Strong force is.

    Sure, it “increases with distance” but the amount of energy you put in separating two particles bound by the strong force increases the probability of creating a new particle from the vacuum and then that distance snaps instantly. It has a practical limit if it is within the bounds of spacetime.

    Edit: sorry I hit save before I finished

    So not only is it special strong, if we define it with the only known things we can define anything with, it breaks all sorts of other things. And since the entire universe isn’t bound together into one tight strongly held particle possibly means that the only reason the universe exists at all is because defining the strong force forced particles out of nothing.














  • Gluons do not have a half life?

    Remember that they DO make an exchange - Gluons have color charge - red, green and blue. QCD is the magical realm of color charge.

    The hardest part for quantum anything is grasping the “probability aspect” means spontaneous things can happen. In the case of QCD, as you put energy into separating quarks it becomes infinitely more likely to pull particles out of the vacuum than to separate them.

    QCD is involved in fusion in a similar way - two protons will oppose each other with infinitely more force the closer they get because their charges are repulsive. The faster two protons are flung at eachother, the probability of the quarks binding increases.



  • Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -

    “Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they’re not going to find us again.”

    “Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They’re unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don’t know how many more times I can run myself! We’re doomed Clarice! Doomed!”


  • Strong force is the same.

    I don’t know if it’s shorter than the weak force, but you gotta be in an atom’s nucleus to experience it

    Edit: i just realized I may have confused people - strong force has a limited distance, not that it’s because they decay.

    Edit 2: If i ever got a PhD or master’s even in Physics, id probably write a book on how “The Universe Demands Laziness.” Because pretty much everything in physics ends up with a system taking shortcuts to save a little bit of energy.