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kurious
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Think of a proton being orbited by a single electron.Gluons in the
proton have energy and so must curve space-time and so affect the
passage of electric force-mediating photons - traveling from the
proton to the electron - through it.So the electric force and colour
force interact.This means that the electric charge of a lepton must
respond to the colour force indirectly and very weakly.
An electron and positron would be expected to have a "pure" electric
force interaction with one another.However if gluons exist in the
quantum vacuum between them,then these gluons can curve space-time and
affect the passage of force-mediating photons, and so the leptons
would be experiencing indirectly the effects of the colour force.But
is this the same as saying that the leptons have the property of
colour?
proton have energy and so must curve space-time and so affect the
passage of electric force-mediating photons - traveling from the
proton to the electron - through it.So the electric force and colour
force interact.This means that the electric charge of a lepton must
respond to the colour force indirectly and very weakly.
An electron and positron would be expected to have a "pure" electric
force interaction with one another.However if gluons exist in the
quantum vacuum between them,then these gluons can curve space-time and
affect the passage of force-mediating photons, and so the leptons
would be experiencing indirectly the effects of the colour force.But
is this the same as saying that the leptons have the property of
colour?