Re: Toys that are 1) Shiny, 2) World's Largest, and 3) Broken

abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Anthony de Boer - USEnet) writes:

> Steve VanDevender posted thus:
>>Don't the quarks wiggle around inside the proton? And you can't get
>>them out, either.
>
> Leeeeetle tiny tweezers. Umm, not vivisection, maybe "protisection"?

The fun part is that the strong nuclear force _increases_ with distance.
Trying to winch a single quark out of a hadron results in a new
quark-antiquark pair being created from the increased bond energy,
leaving you with two hadrons and still no single unbound quarks.
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