<story><title>The strength of the strong force</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-08-strength-strong.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dataflow</author><text>I just can&amp;#x27;t wrap my head around how non-inverse-square-laws are supposed to work for forces. Why doesn&amp;#x27;t this (and MOND) violate a fundamental law? I thought the point of inverse square laws was that we have a point source, area increases with r^2, energy is radiated symmetrically in space, and thus energy at any given point has to drop off with 1&amp;#x2F;r^2 in order for total energy to remain constant. So how is a non inverse square law supposed to work? How can we not be violating something fundamental like conservation of energy, number of dimensions in space, spherical symmetry, causality, etc.?</text></comment>
<story><title>The strength of the strong force</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2022-08-strength-strong.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RandomWorker</author><text>This baffles me, both gravity and electromagnetic forces drop off with increasing distance. Anyone familiar with the theoretical basis for this? I assume this has really weird consequences for unification of all forces. I believe when I was studying physics they said that strong and electromagnetic were very similar (at short distances).</text></comment>