Oct 30 2007
The Strong Nuclear Force
I think of the strong nuclear force as being due to the vortices* from an electron setting up standing waves within the protons and neutrons within the nucleus of an atom. For anyone willing to make a try at the math, the Schrödinger equation may be a good place to start. These standing waves, it is presumed, set up quite nicely within an alpha particle since an alpha particle is very stable.
As a possible consequence, it may be that all nucleons within an intact nucleus have roughly equal positive charges. In the case where a neutron is ejected from a nucleus, it would gather all the vortices it needs as it takes off and becomes of neutral charge.
* Kadin, A. M., “Circular Polarization and Quantum Spin: A Unified Real-Space Picture of Photons and Electrons”, ArXiv Quantum Physics preprint, 2005:
http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0508/0508064.pdf