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The Unpredictable Strong Force Continues to Surprise Physicists

02-22-2024 • arclein

After more than a century of slamming particles together, physicists have a pretty good idea of what goes on in the heart of the atom. Electrons buzz in probabilistic clouds around a nucleus of protons and neutrons, each of which contains a trio of bizarre particles known as quarks. The force that holds all the quarks together to make the nucleus is the aptly named strong force. It is the strong force that must be overcome to split the atom. And it is the strong force that binds quarks together so tightly that no quark has ever been spotted solo. These features of quarks, many of which might be encountered in a high school science class, have been established as experimental facts. And y

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Reported By robert klein

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