On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:10 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
But why does the force fall off with such a high power relationship with > respect to separation? Here's a Hyperphysics page that says that the range of the strong interaction is limited in part because gluons carry color charge, and therefore interact with themselves and with quarks, in contrast to photons, which carry no (electromagnetic) charge: The range of the strong force is limited by the fact that the gluons > interact with each other as well as with quarks in the context of quark > confinement. These properties contrast them with photons, which are > massless and of infinite range. The photon does not carry electric charge > with it, while the gluons do carry the "color charge". http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/particles/expar.html Eric
