Question

Strong nuclear force question

Answer 1

What makes the force? is it the protons that make the strong nuclear force?


Also, it says that the nuclear force is so short range that it can only attract other nucleons that are right next to each other. So whats keeping the other nucleons on the other side together?

Answer 2

It is one of the four elemental forces in the universe (the strongest one), nobody knows exactly what it is and how it is made, but its force carriers are the gluons which are the responsible for the strong nuclear force interactions between elementary particles mainly in the nucleous between hadrons (protons, neutrons, and some more composite particles).

Answer 3

"its force carriers are the gluons which are the responsible for the strong nuclear force interactions between elementary particles mainly in the nucleous between hadrons (protons, neutrons, and some more composite particles). "

could you explain it more in detail if you can? @santistebanc