Gluon

Find out what a Gluon is!

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• Gluon
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[MidnightRedemption]

according to "the elegant universe", gluon are the reason why the proton and neutron are intact (gluon is strong force). so, in nuclear bombs, gluon are released and a massive energy comes. but what about e=mc^2 ??

[cassiopeiaproject]

@MidnightRedemption You ask a very complicated question. The energy released in a nuclear bomb is binding energy. A proton and neutron united have about 2.2 MeV less mass/energy than they do when apart. This binding mass/energy is what gets released when a deuteron fuses together. 

[cassiopeiaproject]

@MidnightRedemption (cont.) Since gluons provide the binding force and since gluons definitely contribute to the mass/energy of the deuteron, it is reasonable to conclude that the binding energy that is released in a nuclear reaction comes from the gluons -- at least in part.

[TheCrypto137]

@cassiopeiaproject not true.Gluons keep quarks together not nucleons. Pi mesons keep protons and neutrons together so it's more probably that energy comes from them during radioactive emission...

[cassiopeiaproject]

@TheCrypto137 The nucleon-nucleon attractive force mediated by mesons is an older idea that sort of works. The model since about the 1970's recognizes that mesons themselves are made up of quarks and gluons. When these mesons are exchanged -- the newer understanding shows, quarks and gluons are being exchanged with other quarks and gluons to form the nucleon-nucleon attractive force -- and gluons are the ultimate mediator of this force.

[sidewaysfcs0718]

IF a gluon is shaped like a string ..and itself is not made of smaller particles ..

does this mean its a continous entity?

cus i thought quantum mechanics rejects the idea of continuous....

i mean after all ..lets say hypothetically u could shricnk yourself to the size of a gluon ....what would u see? (even if u couldnt see it cus photons dont bounce off it) ..but for the sake of argument ..would it be like a solid circle?

i mean ..it has to be made of smaller stuff ...

[cassiopeiaproject]

If you could shrink yourself to the size of a gluon, then you would find that you had become an energy vibration in eleven dimensions. I don't know how to help you visualize that because I can't visualize it myself. The equations for early string theory resemble the classical equations for oscillating strings -- thus the name. But today, points, surfaces, and membranes are part of the theory as well.

[rruudoo]

and thats why theres a shoop da whoop gun in half-life

[TheCrusaderBin]

You can NOT play Half-Life TOO much. Plain impossible, simple physics.

[hexmeohdear]

Actually, anything can be considered a Gluon Gun because all atoms contain gluons.

So Half-Life isn't wrong.

[tiagandremo]

what i dont get abotu all these tiny particles is the following, how can it exist a be somethign with out mass??? thats what i dont get, every thing that exists must have a mass even if it is too small to measure

[slowmopoke]

thank you



[Dogmaf2008]

Im sorry...a particle with no mass?really?

[dansharkhunter]

By Gluons being a virtual particle, doesn't that mean it's a mental contruct to describe particle interaction over distances? Or are they in fact another set of particles? If so why call them virtual particles, and simply not just another set of Particles.

Where does the "virtualness" come form.

[gellydrop]

all hail science

[TehOwnerer999]

@cassiopeiaproject "If you could shrink yourself to the size of a gluon, then you would find that you had become an energy vibration in eleven dimensions."

Isn't quantum mechanics completely separate from string theory and so should reject any string theory explanations?

[mannomanngt]

Half life ftw