Thank you guys, went a bit beyond me towards the end but I'm gaining an understanding of this more now. Just to clarify a point...
If I'm treating the nucleons as points so as you said, when 0.5fm apart they would indeed overlap by quite a lot! So in a nucleus are all the nucleons touching each...
The SNF and whether particles "touch"
Hi there guys.
I'm intrigued when reading about the Strong Nuclear Force and how it becomes repulsive at 0.5fm as to whether protons and neutrons "touch" each other. As far as I am aware the diameter of a proton is approximately 1fm.
I am unsure whether...