What are two ways that electromagnetic forces and strong nuclear forces are alike and two ways that they are different?
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What are the difference and similarity of electromagnetic force and strong nuclear force?
What are the difference and similarity of electromagnetic force and strong nuclear force?
I will use/add the formal name of electrostatic (ES) force (Coulomb), rather than, or in addition to, electromagnetic (EM), because the magnetic part of EM calcs do not work at subatomic distance of strong nuclear force.
All are forces which interact between subatomic particles. So much for similar.
So, formally, ES works at all distances, EM only extra-atomic distances, and strong nuclear force only at subatomic distances.
Electrostatic force is isotropic (fancy word for spherically symmetric - decreasing that the same rate in every direction). It works at 1/distance-squared. It is based upon charge which is protons (+) and electrons (-), not neutrons.
Strong nuclear force includes protons and neutrons, that is different that ES and/or EM. The ES exclusion of neutrons is very significant.
Strong nuclear force has this unusual change at the distance of one particle radius, called a pion. The current model is that strength does not change by distance less than particle radius, but strength changes by the pion at 1–2 radius. Then it disappears by the atomic radius. That profile is very, very different from isotropic (above).
To me (not peer-reviewed), that means strong weak force must be a) anisotropic, b) axial, and c) decreases at 1/distance-cubed. So, 1/d^3 will stop working beyond the atomic radius above. a) and b) sounds like a magnet which can stay strong in a chain; the magnet field changes dramatically as you bring two together (the pion distance). That nucleus magnet-like chain would explain the not decreasing and pion observation if the particle itself is a magnet-like shape (axial, anisotropic).
Below is an example of magnet field at 1 separation (pion distance).
When touching, the field shape acts like one long magnet. Now, this is just a postulate, but part of the path to understanding subatomic particles and phyisical explanations for the elementary particles that are hard to explain
What are the difference and similarity of electromagnetic force and strong nuclear force?
What are the difference and similarity of electromagnetic force and strong nuclear force?
I will use/add the formal name of electrostatic (ES) force (Coulomb), rather than, or in addition to, electromagnetic (EM), because the magnetic part of EM calcs do not work at subatomic distance of strong nuclear force.
All are forces which interact between subatomic particles. So much for similar.
So, formally, ES works at all distances, EM only extra-atomic distances, and strong nuclear force only at subatomic distances.
Electrostatic force is isotropic (fancy word for spherically symmetric - decreasing that the same rate in every direction). It works at 1/distance-squared. It is based upon charge which is protons (+) and electrons (-), not neutrons.
Strong nuclear force includes protons and neutrons, that is different that ES and/or EM. The ES exclusion of neutrons is very significant.
Strong nuclear force has this unusual change at the distance of one particle radius, called a pion. The current model is that strength does not change by distance less than particle radius, but strength changes by the pion at 1–2 radius. Then it disappears by the atomic radius. That profile is very, very different from isotropic (above).
To me (not peer-reviewed), that means strong weak force must be a) anisotropic, b) axial, and c) decreases at 1/distance-cubed. So, 1/d^3 will stop working beyond the atomic radius above. a) and b) sounds like a magnet which can stay strong in a chain; the magnet field changes dramatically as you bring two together (the pion distance). That nucleus magnet-like chain would explain the not decreasing and pion observation if the particle itself is a magnet-like shape (axial, anisotropic).
Below is an example of magnet field at 1 separation (pion distance).
When touching, the field shape acts like one long magnet. Now, this is just a postulate, but part of the path to understanding subatomic particles and phyisical explanations for the elementary particles that are hard to explain