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What is a glueball?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Prediction That Gluons Can Stick to Each Other

There are situations where you can get a couple of two or maybe more gluons kind of wanting to hang out with each other really close together. That's what you would call a glue ball, except ironically, the gluons don't stick around very long. They're not as sticky as we'd like them to be. Gluons are not sticky. Eating glue balls don't stick together. Maybe in super symmetry, we'll have super gluons and those will make super glue balls that will really stick together. There you go. All right. So then so gluons can stick to each other and you think this happens. What does this happen with real glu

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