Quarks are cooler than you thought
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 by AriI just learned this today about quarks. From Death by black hole:
You’ll never catch a quark all by itself; it will always be clutching onto other quarks nearby. In fact, the force that keeps two (or more) of them together actually grows stronger the more you separate them – as if they were attached by some sort of subnuclear rubber band. Separate the quarks enough, the rubber band snaps and the stored energy summons E=mc2 to create a new quark at each end, leaving you back where you started.
