It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Without the large hadron colliders we would have no knowledge of the force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you’ll hear them speaking to you.
Comment on Particle Made Entirely Out of Force Officially Confirmed
jerkface@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
A nucleus is a balance of forces in tension. The particles are trying to fly apart at relativistic speeds, but they are held together by an even stronger force. This tension represents energy, and energy produces gravity – which is a way of saying it has mass. The vast majority of all mass in the familiar world comes entirely from that tension.
So, somehow you can take all the protons and neutrons out of a nucleus, and still have that knot of forces held in tension? Acting on “nothing”? On spacetime? On itself? Non-locally on the original particles?
Or, can these knots be created without even having a nucleus to start from?
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 9 hours ago
Good thing music is easy to come by.
AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
I guess you don’t technically need a nucleus, that’s what they proved here. But remember that gluons are what bind quarks together. And quarks are what actually make up a Proton or Neutron.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I misunderstood. Gluons don’t bind the nuclear particles to each other, they bind the sub-nuclear quarks into nuclear particles.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
Yeah, IIRC the force between nucleons is actually mediated by virtual pions, which are themselves composite particles. (Which is why it doesn’t get stronger with distance, like happens with the direct strong force)
It turns out that glueballs don’t come from “taking the quarks out” of regular matter but by some kind of direct excitation of the colour charge field – a thing I didn’t even know was a thing.
Yep. It’s like if photons (which are the fundamental particles of electromagnetism) had a magnetic or electric charge.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
Insightful questions, jerkface.
*Me, downvoting before reading usernames for context*