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What Holds It Together? Strong
To understand what is happening inside the nucleus, we need to understand
more about the quarks that make up the protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
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The strong force holds quarks together to form hadrons, so its carrier particles are
whimsically called
Color charge behaves differently than electromagnetic charge. Gluons, themselves, have color charge, which is weird and not at all like photons which do not have electromagnetic charge. And while quarks have color charge, composite particles made out of quarks have no net color charge (they are color neutral). For this reason, the strong force only takes place on the really small level of quark interactions, which is why you are not aware of the strong force in your everyday life. |