What Is Dark Matter?

[DevilsAvocado]

Okay guys, if a layman would wrap this up, it’ll be:

"the strong force acts sort of like springs between the quarks"

And the reason the quarks don’t BOOM! gets sucked into a micro black hole, is the uncertainty principle (making it impossible to nail down those little bastards).

This leads to a tension (virtual energy) inside the nucleons, and this energy can be translated to 90% QCD Mass.

Einstein: E = m (big!)

Correct?

(Can I have the Nobel Prize now?? )

P.S. George thanks for the link to http://books.google.com/books?id=w9Dz56myXm8C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false"!

 

[bapowell]

And the reason the quarks don’t BOOM! gets sucked into a micro black hole, is the uncertainty principle (making it impossible to nail down those little bastards).

Not quite. There's a bit more to the story. It's probably more correct to say that quarks simply aren't energetic enough. If you look back at the expression I posted above, as you increase the mass/energy of the particle, the Schwarzschild radius gets larger while the Compton wavelength gets smaller. Eventually, you reach an energy scale at which they meet. Then you get a black hole. Thinking in terms of the uncertainty principle, one sees that as the energy increases, the minimum uncertainty in the location of the particle decreases (this is the reason for the decrease in the Compton wavelength). Then, when that minumum uncertainty becomes smaller than the Schwarzschild radius, BOOM!, we form a black hole.

 

[DevilsAvocado]

Not quite. There's a bit more to the story. ...

Okay, thanks bapowell.

Correction:
"the strong force acts sort of like springs between the quarks"
And the reason the quarks can resist the strong force (inwards), is the uncertainty principle.
This leads to a tension (virtual energy) inside the nucleons, and this energy can be translated to 90% QCD Mass.

Correct?

 

[Chalnoth]

Potential energy, not virtual energy.

 

[DevilsAvocado]

Thanks Chalnoth! Finally it feels like I have some 'weight' in QCD!