Quantum, Relativity & Forces Explained | Pixelated Physics

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Two glowing nucleons in a nucleus exchanging a bright meson across the tiny gap between them

Hideki Yukawa and the Meson: How a Force’s Rang...

In 1934 Hideki Yukawa asked why the force that holds the nucleus together reaches only about the width of a proton. His answer: a force carried by a particle with...

Hideki Yukawa and the Meson: How a Force’s Rang...

In 1934 Hideki Yukawa asked why the force that holds the nucleus together reaches only about the width of a proton. His answer: a force carried by a particle with...

A tightly packed nucleus of red protons and blue neutrons bound by crackling sparks of the strong force, with faint electron orbits

What Holds the Nucleus Together? The Strong For...

Protons repel each other, yet nuclei hold together. The answer is the strong force, first pictured by Hideki Yukawa as an exchange of mesons and now understood through quarks and...

What Holds the Nucleus Together? The Strong For...

Protons repel each other, yet nuclei hold together. The answer is the strong force, first pictured by Hideki Yukawa as an exchange of mesons and now understood through quarks and...