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Thanks man! That was actually really helpful!

At first, we thought protons were elementary particles, so they gave them an elementary charge of +1, which is 1,6x10^-19 Coulombs. When we discovered that they were in fact composite particles, the electric charge of the elementary particles making up the protons and neutrons then had to be a...

Yes, gluons do interact between themselves, but I thought it'd be easier not to include this in the explanation, but only mention it. So, for the mind-bending constructs, like you said, are for what? Except for normalization or linear independance... does that mean they have the same "color...

Also, is it correct to say this? Thanks.

Hi, it's my first post :) I've been working on a learning app about subatomic particles for some time, and now we'd need to represent gluons. I want to do this correctly by representing the eight possible gluons in the octet, but don't really know how to read the name of a gluon. I know...