nuclear force

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The mere existence of a credible nuclear force prevents adversaries from contemplating attacks they would otherwise consider.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

This is essentially a tension in the model where something doesn't add up when examining the nuclear force that binds together protons, neutrons and other particles.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2024

A few have also pursued the axion, a nearly massless particle originally proposed to solve a different problem with the theory of the strong nuclear force.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024

"Similarly, in these nucleonic quantum dots, a single neutron can be trapped by a nanocrystal, with a size well beyond the range of the nuclear force, and display similar quantized energies."

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

However, there is another property of the strong nuclear force, called asymptotic freedom, that makes the concept of quarks and gluons well defined.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking