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Thanks for the clarification. So the total energy of the system goes down? Or are you referring to just the total potential energy of it?

When looking into how particles decay, it seems that it will happen if there exists an interaction between the initial and final state, and if the final state has lower potential energy than the initial. (i.e. turning mass into kinetic energy) If this is true, how does a gluon turn into a quark...

Recently I’ve been learning more about quantum physics, and Physics Forums has had a lot of good answers to questions I had. I’m looking forward to learning even more, and asking questions that I’ve beenconfused about.