Comment on Particle Made Entirely Out of Force Officially Confirmed
jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 hours agoI misunderstood. Gluons don’t bind the nuclear particles to each other, they bind the sub-nuclear quarks into nuclear particles.
Comment on Particle Made Entirely Out of Force Officially Confirmed
jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 hours agoI misunderstood. Gluons don’t bind the nuclear particles to each other, they bind the sub-nuclear quarks into nuclear particles.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 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)
Yep. It’s like if photons (which are the fundamental particles of electromagnetism) had a magnetic or electric charge.