I What is a realistic image of quarks?

[BvU]

Lovely video (in #49). A level deeper than the original one in this thread.

insist on representing quarks as spherical particles

Not all the time : if there is a gluon nearby it morphs into a nike-like swoosh

that makes me feel giddy for a split sec . And a gluon that looks like a pessarium will probably also not be 'realistic'

I think they did a good job visually supporting the spoken text with representing the unvisualizable. Moving balls are so much more bearable that rippling blobs of colour (nice colours, though).

 

[DennisN]

Lovely video (in #49). A level deeper than the original one in this thread.
Not all the time : if there is a gluon nearby it morphs into a nike-like swoosh
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...and below it morphs into a Star Trek Starfleet command emblem.

 

[Zeynel]

It may be worth noting that is was a very basic visual representation, and there are other things which were not shown in the picture, for instance that quarks exchange gluons with each other, and quarks have fractional charges.

I found a picture showing gluons as springs. Do gluons obey Hook's law?

 

[ZapperZ]

I found a picture showing gluons as springs. Do gluons obey Hook's law?
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Oh dear. This is never going to end, is it?

Zz.

 

[Nugatory]

Oh dear. This is never going to end, is it?

Zz.

Yes, it will end.
In fact, it just did - this thread is closed.