PBS Space Time

What Makes The Strong Force Strong? (2022x23)

Air date: Aug 24, 2022

Original Title: Why Isn’t The Nucleus Ripped Apart? Quantum mechanics gets weirder as you go to smaller sizes and higher energies. It’s strange enough for atoms, but positively bizarre when we get to the atomic nucleus. And today we’re going nuclear, as we dive into the weird world of quantum chromodynamics and the strong force.