66 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML
66 lines
2.5 KiB
HTML
<style>
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#animation {
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margin: 0 auto;
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width: 850px;
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text-align: center;
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}
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</style>
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<h1>The Strong Interaction</h1>
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<div id="quark-animation">
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<ul id="quark-frames">
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<li><img title="Two quarks are bound together by the strong force." src="img/quark_deconf/1.png">
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<li><img title="As their distance increases, so does their attraction." src="img/quark_deconf/2.png">
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<li><img title="More and more energy is stored in the force field." src="img/quark_deconf/3.png">
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<li><img title="More and more energy is stored in the force field." src="img/quark_deconf/4.png">
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<li><img title="More and more energy is stored in the force field." src="img/quark_deconf/5.png">
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<li><img title="More and more energy is stored in the force field." src="img/quark_deconf/6.png">
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<li><img title="... Until the energy is sufficient to create new particles!" src="img/quark_deconf/7.png">
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<li><img title="This is the reason why we can never see colored objects alone. We call this confinement." src="img/quark_deconf/8.png">
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</ul>
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<div id="quark-animation-slider"></div>
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</div>
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<p class="abstract">There must be some kind of force that glues together the quarks in the
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proton, just like the electromagnetic force attaches the electron to
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the atomic nucleus. And like for electromagnetism, there must be
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messenger particle of this force, and also a kind of “charge”, called
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golor, that will determine which particles take part in this
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interaction and whether two particles will attract or repel each
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other. This force is very different from electromagnetism: no particle
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that has a color can exist freely, they must be in a bound system. The
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messenger particles of this interaction are called gluons, and they
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themselves carry color, so they cannot exist freely either.</p>
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<p class="abstract">Looking at the proton, we see that there are three
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quarks glued together - unlike in the hydrogen atom, where there are
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only two partners: the proton and the electron. Hence, something must
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be different about this strong, nuclear force, that glues together the
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quarks. There are three different kinds of "charge", as opposed to
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electromagnetism, where there are only two, which we call positive and
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negative. For the strong force, the "charge" is called color.</p>
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<script type="text/javascript">
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var anim = $('#quark-frames').bxSlider({
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controls: false,
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mode: 'fade',
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speed: 100,
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captions: true
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});
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$("#quark-animation-slider" ).slider({
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value: 0,
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min: 0,
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max: 7,
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step: 1,
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slide: function(event, ui) {
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anim.goToSlide(ui.value);
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}
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});
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</script>
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