On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 09:47:35AM -0700, John Ross wrote:
> Attached is the section of my book that describes the structure of the alpha
> particle.
>
> John R.
>
As Liz said, there's no detail or explanation here. We know that
Coulomb forces follow the inverse square law, right? I really don't
know what you accept or reject from conventional physics, so tell me
if I guess your assumptions incorrectly.
What you describe sounds a bit like the charge screening effect behind
the van der Waals force, which is an attractive force at large
distance between neutral particles (atoms in this case), but repulsive
at short range due to the internal charge structure of the particles.
However, your potential for the alpha particle is way more complex -
it is repulsive at short and long distance, and attractive at
intermediate distances. The potential must look something like (excuse
the ASCII art):
\ _
\ / \
\ / -....
--------------------------
\ /
-
Where are your calculations showing that your configuration of
particles produces this potential?
BTW - the strong force is not "magical" in the standard model. It is
caused by the exchange of particles called gluons between quark
pairs. The mechanism is well understood, and accords with experimental
data very well.
What seems magical is how you get an attractive component to the
screened potential at intermediate ranges from your model.
Cheers
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