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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Three American scientists won the 2004 Nobel physics prize on Tuesday for showing how tiny quark particles interact, helping to explain everything from how a coin spins to how the universe was built.
David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek had shown how the attraction between quarks -- the basic building blocks of nature -- was strong when they were far apart and weak when they were close together.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work on the "strong force" between quarks helped give "a unified description of all the forces of Nature ... from the tiniest distances within the atomic nucleus to the vast distances of the universe."
It explains how "an everyday phenomenon like a coin spinning on a table" is determined by fundamental forces between protons, neutrons, electrons. Protons and neutrons are made up of quarks, bound by the "strong force."
The strong force functions a bit like an elastic band that is tauter when it is pulled.
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David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek had shown how the attraction between quarks -- the basic building blocks of nature -- was strong when they were far apart and weak when they were close together.
Originally posted by Gazrok
All I get is a white page for the link....
Originally posted by Gazrok
All I get is a white page for the link....
Originally posted by blanketgirl
Maybe absence really does make the heart grow fonder...
Originally posted by amantine
The nobel prize is usually given about 20 years after the discovery to confirm its significance. The winners Gross, Politzer and Wilczek really deserved it!