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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: The American Airlines Flagship Detroit
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 09:25:48 -0400
I submit to Mike. I gave up on trying to understand physics long before quarks became available in technicolor. I thought it might be easier to understand time since it's a bit more palpable but Julian Barbour has convinced me that time doesn't exist. That made everything much easier. Doesn't exist? See, nothing to understand. Much easier.

Chuck Norcutt


On 6/22/2016 9:19 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
Chuck writes: For homework please explain (in lurid detail) why the
strong force has a limited range of just 1 femtometer. Has Trump
built a wall around it? Regardless, it is clear that Othello is
outside its range and he will not be contained either. What is your
backup plan? Does it involve longer range forces such as those
mysterious ones in the 2-3 femtometer range?

As forces of nature go, the OP force is uncontainable and there is no
back-up plan.  We submit to the force and all is well--Moose can
confirm.

I am by no means any sort of expert in QCD though studied quantum
mechanics in school.  In general the  range of a force is determined
by the  mediating "exchange particle"  which in turn is limited by
the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.  Bigger particles essentially
have to get back before they are missed--gross simplification,
probably.  Gluons  in the standard model mediate the strong force in
quark- quark interactions have color charge and aren't really very
big and it gets very complex.-  they participate in the strong
interaction and among themselves as well as mediating  the force. The
math  was nearly inscrutable even when my math was decent which it no
longer is.   Will have to defer to the list QCD  fan.

Submit to the OP force or else, Mike





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