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2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

  • 01:55: But perhaps the most characteristic property of the neutrino is that they only interact via the weak nuclear force and gravity.

2022-11-16: Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?

  • 06:52: On the other hand we have the even-stronger strong nuclear force holding the nucleons together.
  • 07:50: That’s why neutrons are so useful - they help separate protons so that the strong nuclear force stays stronger than electromagnetism.

2022-09-14: Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?

  • 01:06: They tug and push at each other via the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces.
  • 06:01: ... and whatever is made of quarks; it excludes the W boson of the weak nuclear force. ...
  • 06:14: It excludes the color-charged gluons of the strong nuclear force.

2022-08-24: What Makes The Strong Force Strong?

  • 01:11: Namely, the strong nuclear force.

2022-08-03: What Happens Inside a Proton?

  • 06:02: ... coupling strength for the strong nuclear force is ingeniously named the strong coupling constant.   It is much ...

2022-06-22: Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?

  • 17:43: ... that means reaching the conditions where electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force combine, but almost certainly also the strong force and perhaps gravity ...

2022-03-16: What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

  • 08:32: The quark model for nucleons led to a description  of the strong nuclear force via this SU(3) stuff to give us quantum chromodynamics.

2022-02-23: Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

  • 00:58: ... This gives us our familiar   electromagnetic, strong and weak nuclear forces. But at very high temperatures,   the complexities of the ...

2021-10-13: New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light

  • 02:03: For example, the protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus are held in the potential barrier of the strong nuclear force.

2021-10-05: Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

  • 08:53: In the early 70s physicists had managed to explain the weak nuclear force and unify it with electromagnetism.
  • 09:08: With that squared away, physicists were working to bring the strong nuclear force into the fold with the so-called Grand Unified Theories.

2021-09-15: Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe

  • 08:15: ... range attraction to each other due to   the strong nuclear force, the electric repulsion between the remaining protons tries to push ...

2021-07-21: How Magnetism Shapes The Universe

  • 01:29: The nuclear forces are short range, and the electrostatic force never adds up to much because its positive and negative charges tend to cancel it out.

2021-01-26: Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

  • 01:44: ... with each other through the standard model forces - the strong and weak nuclear forces and ...

2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces

  • 13:01: ... this grand quest to find deeper symmetries that could bring the strong nuclear force into the fold, allowing us to collect the full Pokemon-evolution set of ...

2020-08-10: Theory of Everything Controversies: Livestream

  • 00:00: ... of inspiration from both of you besides thinking more about the weak nuclear force what advice would you give to a young aspiring physicist uh sabine ...

2020-05-27: Does Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?

  • 00:54: ... the other forces - I’m talking 10^24 times weaker than even the weak nuclear force. ...

2020-02-11: Are Axions Dark Matter?

  • 00:03: ... does the strong nuclear force, the fundamental symmetries of nature, and a laundry detergent have in ...
  • 01:05: ... flip. But not all. In a previous episode we talked about how the weak nuclear force is NOT symmetric under combined charge and mirror inversion and - or in ...
  • 02:11: ... in the weak force it’s natural to ask if it happens in the strong nuclear force also. The strong force is the fundamental force that binds quarks ...
  • 07:47: It would interact very weakly via the strong and weak nuclear forces, and via gravity.

2020-01-27: Hacking the Nature of Reality

  • 09:45: ... of the behavior of quarks and gluons revealed that the strong nuclear force does not actually approach infinite strength as was once feared, and so ...
  • 11:35: ... so string theory was born - at first as a description of strong nuclear force interactions before quantum chromodynamics took over - but then as a ...

2020-01-06: How To Detect a Neutrino

  • 01:57: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Neutrinos are among the most elusive elementary particles of nature, ♪ ♪ only interacting by the weak nuclear force and gravity.
  • 04:16: ♪ ♪ As we mentioned: they only experience the weak nuclear force and gravity, ♪ ((𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵)) ♪ and the latter is so weak we can ignore it altogether.
  • 05:05: ... the massless photon or gluon, which carry the electromagnetic and strong nuclear forces. ...

2019-11-11: Does Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?

  • 05:44: This all comes does to the fine-tuning of the strength of the strong nuclear force.
  • 06:51: But the fine-tuning is still there - we need the right balance between between the strengths of the strong nuclear force and gravity.
  • 07:19: ... the weak nuclear force is important; it regulates the conversion of protons into neutrons, and ...
  • 07:47: ... span a vast range of values nearly 10^40 from the strong nuclear force to gravity, and there’s no apparent pattern in their values. As far as ...

2019-08-19: What Happened Before the Big Bang?

  • 05:59: Those are theories that combine the strong nuclear force with electromagnetic and weak forces.

2019-07-01: Thorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy

  • 00:33: ... and Matter-antimatter annihilation we have nuclear energy the strong nuclear force holding nuclei together contains an enormous amount of energy The Sun is ...

2018-12-12: Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe

  • 00:02: ... at least for tests involving gravity electromagnetism and the strong nuclear forces it was assumed that the weak nuclear force was the same deal that's ...

2018-11-14: Supersymmetric Particle Found?

  • 02:49: That's the energy at which the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces merge into the same force.

2018-10-18: What are the Strings in String Theory?

  • 01:52: The idea started in the 60s with efforts to understand the behavior of hadrons, collections of quarks bound by the gluons of the strong nuclear force.
  • 02:23: In this case, the strings are stretched out tubes of strong nuclear force, vibrating elastic bands made of gluons.

2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions

  • 04:44: ... is vastly weaker, 10 to the power of 32 times weaker, than even the weak nuclear force. ...
  • 04:56: The only reason we see so much gravity is that its range is infinite-- and unlike the nuclear forces.

2018-07-11: Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model

  • 09:49: ... the fields that give rise to electromagnetism, the weak and the strong nuclear forces, ...

2018-07-04: Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

  • 00:36: They don't interact by the electromagnetic or strong nuclear forces, only by the weak nuclear force and gravity.
  • 01:38: Those regular neutrinos are spotted when they interact with matter via the weak nuclear force.
  • 05:21: Chirality determines whether a particle can interact with the weak nuclear force.

2018-02-21: The Death of the Sun

  • 10:18: ... point, after a threshold, they come into range of each other's strong nuclear force, and the direction of the force turns around so the protons fold ...

2017-10-19: The Nature of Nothing

  • 06:03: On the other hand, it always takes a baseline chunk of energy to create a gluon, the carrier of the strong nuclear force, because gluons have mass.
  • 06:13: That means there's a limit to how long virtual gluons can exist and travel, which in turn makes the strong nuclear force a very short-range force.

2016-11-16: Strange Stars

  • 06:45: The electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force were unified as the electroweak force.

2016-09-07: Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer

  • 02:34: See, three of the four fundamental forces, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces, are all communicated by these gauge bosons things.

2016-06-29: Nuclear Physics Challenge

  • 01:48: The walls of the box result from the strong nuclear force which holds the nucleus together.

2016-06-15: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing

  • 10:18: Think about that alpha particle trying to tunnel through the potential energy wall of the strong nuclear force.
  • 10:34: That means it can spontaneously be in the region of the wall where the strong nuclear force is pulling it back towards the center.

2016-06-01: Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?

  • 03:13: There an alpha particle is snugly bound into the nucleus by the strong nuclear force.
  • 04:10: There remains a tiny tail of probability outside the nucleus, beyond the reach of the strong nuclear force.

2016-04-06: We Are Star Stuff

  • 03:54: ... once these nucleon are close enough, the binding energy of the strong nuclear force is stronger than the repulsion of the electrostatic or cooling ...

2016-03-02: What’s Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?

  • 01:52: ... you take this Higgs mass away from the particles that carry the weak nuclear force, they become just like the photon, which itself carries the ...
  • 02:49: ... 38 seconds, it's expected that this electroweak force and the strong nuclear force-- that's the force that holds atomic nuclei together-- also become unified ...

2016-01-06: The True Nature of Matter and Mass

  • 10:06: Then, without an infinite source and sink of weak hypercharge, the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force were all the same force.

2015-12-16: The Higgs Mechanism Explained

  • 04:26: ... except in this case, it lets only left-handed electrons feel the weak nuclear force. ...

2015-08-05: What Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!

  • 10:09: ... by some kind of particle like electromagnetism by the photons, strong nuclear forces by the gluon, and so ...
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