Fundamental Force in a Bathhouse
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The Strong Nuclear Force
The strong nuclear force was theorized in 1935 by a Japanese physicist named Hideki Yukawa. The how of the strong nuclear force wasn't discovered until the 1970s when they learned more about the nature of quarks. There are three different colors and they have to be balanced. Gluons will spontaneously, I think that's the word, change the color of a quark and it will change the colors of all the quarks so that they are balanced.
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