Quark binding theory

During the mid-1970s, theoretical physicists worked out the color theory in detail, gaining an understanding of the forces binding quarks together. This theory, which was called quantum chromo-... 

Once we begin discussing constituents , it becomes irresistible to look for composite leptons and quarks. An early theory of Harari [100, 101] can be nicely represented [41] as an almost inevitable consequence of a beautiful symmetry. One of the chapters in Brock s book [5] on Prout is entitled The Bottomless Pit , citing Heaviside for our propensity for endless regression. Nature may not make a clear-cut decision. If the ratio R between the binding energy of three rishons [100] in a lepton or a quark and the rest-mass of the... 

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