#strong force

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and the other two fundamental forces, Strong Force and Weak Force

I was thinking that it would be hard to make them into creatures but there's actually quite a lot that I could do

With Strong Force, there is heavy basis on quantum colour, with three eyes representing the three colour charges

Whereas Weak Force has heavy asymmetry in their design because they are the only fundamental force that breaks charge-parity symmetry. And also for its role in fission and fusion

also I made all of them except Gravity bipedal because Gravity is the only one that isn't described by quantum mechanics and doesn't have a boson as a force carrier so she gets to be special i guess

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Created by the human mind and handcrafted.

The strong force is the fundamental binding force at the core of reality, the strongest of the four fundamental forces, acting over an extremely short distance without which atoms and matter could not exist.

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Here are a quartet of legendaries based off of the Fundamental Forces in physics. I might look back to redo this batch one day.

The Fundamental Forces are strong force (keeps protons and neutrons together and also the quarks in the protons/neutrons together), weak force (decay of subatomic particles that can lead to nuclear fission and nuclear fusion), electromagnetic force (magnets, plus and minus charges), and gravitational force (masses are attracted to each other).

Gluotus (Fighting/Normal): The Gluotus can use their arms to stick to anything and can join nearly any material with another. The Gluotus has some of the strongest powers out of the forces, but they work at a much shorter distance.

Bosotus (Poison/Normal): The Bosotus can weaken any material and nearly decay any wall that gets in their way. The Bosotus can curiously decay some matter but also seemingly reverse the process with a different kind of decay.

Elektus (Electric/Normal): The Elektus uses their force to glide across long distances with ease even in the vacuum of outer space. The Elektus has let their presence be known several times making them one of the more familiar Forces.

Gravitus (Psychic/Normal): The Gravitus can change one's experience of gravity; however they are considered the weakest of the forces. The Gravitus has detachable arms as they orbit their body when not in any particular use.

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The Strong Nuclear Force Made Easy: Without Colors Or Group Theory

“It’s true that the Universe obeys arcane and complicated rules, and that the best language for expressing those rules happens to be mathematics. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t endeavor to be translators, keeping the accuracy of the rules but making them accessible to far greater numbers of people. Every time we learn of a new way to present a scientific or mathematical phenomena, we gain a new tool in our arsenal for not only teaching it to others, but for better understanding it ourselves.

The strong interaction obeys all of the group theory rules associated with the special unitary group SU(3), but unless you’re an advanced graduate student in either physics or math, that’s probably not a language you speak. It can be described in terms of color, but the flaws in that analogy often leave long-lasting misconceptions even among physicists. The “triangle” analogy is more uncommon, but might help keep more of the mathematical intricacy of the theory while simultaneously eliminating numerous points of colorful confusion. However you slice it, there’s an entirely new set of nuclear forces at play inside atomic nuclei, and the strong force is what holds every nucleus in the Universe together. The better we understand it, the better we understand the physics at the literal core of our very existence.”

Want to understand the strong force, but don’t have the advanced math, and the “colors” analogy is too limiting? Try thinking of a triangle, and everything might fall into place.

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Scientists Find New Particle at Large Hadron Collider at CERN (!!)

The discovery will help researchers learn more about the so-called "strong force" which holds the centres of atoms together. 

The existence of the new particle was theoretically predicted but this is the first time it has been identified. 

The details of the Xi-cc++ particle were presented at a high-energy physics conference in Venice. The study was carried out at the LHCb experiment and led by Dr Patrick Spradlin of Glasgow University. 

He said that the discovery would "shed light on a longstanding puzzle and open an exciting new branch of investigation". 

His colleague, Prof Paul Soler, also from Glasgow University, described the development as "a new frontier in understanding the strong force".

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Why Are There Only 8 Gluons?

“With three colors and three anticolors for the quarks and antiquarks, it’s these combinations of color-anticolor particles that mediate the strong nuclear force between them: the gluons. Six of the gluons are straightforward, with a color-anticolor combination that’s has a different anticolor from the color in question. The other two are combinations of colors-anticolors mixed with one another and a minus sign between them. The only other allowable combination is colorless, and that fails to meet the criteria necessary to be a physical particle. As a result, there are only 8.

It’s remarkable that the Standard Model is so well-described by the mathematics of group theory, with the strong force perfectly aligning with the predictions of that particular branch of mathematics. Unlike gravitation (with only one type of attractive, positive charge) or electromagnetism (with positive and negative charges that attract or repel), the properties of color charge are far more intricate, yet are thoroughly understandable. With just eight gluons, we can hold together every physically possible combination of quarks and antiquarks spanning the entire Universe.”

It seems like the math should be pretty simple. There are three colors: red, green, and blue, for quarks. There are three anticolors as well: antired, antigreen, and antiblue. So how many color-anticolor combinations can you make, then, for the gluons that mediate the nuclear force between the (color-charged) particles?

Nine, right? Because three times three equals nine? Unfortunately, that’s not the math you’re looking for. There are only 8 gluons, not 9. Here’s why.

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Quarks Don't Actually Have Colors

“We may call it color charge, but the strong nuclear force obeys rules that are unique among all the phenomena in the Universe. While we ascribe colors to quarks, anticolors to antiquarks, and color-anticolor combinations to gluons, it's only a limited analogy. In truth, none of the particles or antiparticles have a color at all, but merely obey the rules of an interaction that has three fundamental types of charge, and only combinations that have no net charge under this system are allowed to exist in nature.

This intricate interaction is the only known force that can overcome the electromagnetic force and keep two particles of like electric charge bound together into a single, stable structure: the atomic nucleus. Quarks don't actually have colors, but they do have charges as governed by the strong interaction. Only with these unique properties can the building blocks of matter combine to produce the Universe we inhabit today.”

At a fundamental level, forces like gravity are easy. There’s only one type of charge, mass/energy, and it’s always attractive. The electric force is a little more complex, with two types of fundamental electric charges, positive or negative, where like charges repel and opposite charges attract. But in the theory of the strong interactions, there are three fundamental types of charge, and that changes everything. We call this color charge because of a good analogy with how additive and subtractive colors work, but we can learn even more by investigating where the analogies break down.

Nature is bizarre, but if we’re careful we can understand it. Quarks don’t actually have colors, but what they do have may be even more interesting. Come find out about it today.

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Ask Ethan: Where Does A Proton's Mass Come From?

“What’s happening inside protons? Why does [its] mass so greatly exceed the combined masses of its constituent quarks and gluons?”

The whole is equal to the sum of its parts. That’s one of the first rules you learn, and it’s true about almost everything in the Universe. If you were to break a human being down into our constituent components, the cells in our body would add up to our entire selves. Same for the molecules in our cells and the atoms in our molecules.

But when you get down to atomic nuclei, something funny happens: the individual protons and neutrons are about 1% heavier than the atoms as a whole. That’s a clue as to what’s happening, but it cannot prepare us for the most mind-boggling fact: the quarks that make up the proton are only 0.2% of the proton’s actual mass!

Why is this? And, if it’s not from the quarks that make it up, where does the proton’s mass come from? We know, both theoretically and experimentally, and now you can know, too!