Interesting article, thanks for the link. I see your point.
I can't quite imagine how the strong force can be overcome seeing as its strength increased with distance, but then again when did stuff at the quantum level make sense.
Its sort of counter-intuitive that the sun would be...
The post might be in the wrong forum, and it's likely that a similar question has been asked earlier, but I couldn't find it with my feeble attempts at searching.It's apparently well known that you can't rip quarks away from each other and get singular quarks. The gluon bond gets stronger with...