fundamental interaction, interaction - (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons

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Under normal conditions the potent color force keeps quarks and gluons tightly confined within the nuclear particles.

Melting nuclei re-create Big Bang broth by Weiss, P. / Science News

Physicists have divided all the motions in the universe into the domains of four kinds of force: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak subatomic force and the strong subatomic force or color force.

Was a fifth force felt? by Thomsen, Dietrick E. / Science News

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