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My favorite part of this is that we call these fields (or, rather, their particle manifestations) “gluons” because they’re extremely sticky.
How sticky are they?
If two quarks are stuck together with gluons, & you try to pull the quarks apart, you’ll have to pull SO HARD that the energy you’re putting into the effort will spontaneously create two more quarks in between so now you have two bonded pairs instead of one
If two quarks are stuck together with gluons, & you try to pull the quarks apart, you’ll have to pull SO HARD that the energy you’re putting into the effort will spontaneously create two more quarks in between so now you have two bonded pairs instead of one
Here’s an article by @StartsWithABang talking about how proton mass is mostly gluons and how we have to smash particles together at places like @CERN to figure out how this all works: forbes.com/sites/startswi…
