Talk:Color confinement

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Confining 'phase'

What does 'confining phase' mean in following excerpt? not understandable to even lay physicist. Wilson loop is ok since there is a link.

"The confining phase is usually defined by the behavior of the action of the Wilson loop" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.174.140.104 (talk) 18:51, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Information left out regarding application to mesons

The article explains why color confinement prevents quarks from being separated, but not why mesons can only be made of a quark and an antiquark.ZFT (talk) 22:56, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I guess you mean "why aren't there any light-weight three-quark particles, lighter than the proton?" Good question. Another good question might be "so why isn't the mass of a quark-anti-quark meson equal to about 2/3rds of a proton?" and that's another good question. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 21:59, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rubber band comparison

I think the rubber band comparison is a little misleading. The force in a rubber band is proportional to its extension, whereas the force between two quarks is independent of the distance between them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.145.180 (talk) 17:35, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

160,000 or 10,000 Newtons?

Color confinement “Because of this behavior of the gluon field, a strong force between the quark pair acts constantly—regardless of their distance—with a strength of around 160,000 newtons, roughly the weight of three elephants.”

Strong interaction: "After a limiting distance (about the size of a hadron) has been reached, it remains at a strength of about 10,000 newtons, no matter how much farther the distance between the quarks."Antonquery (talk) 03:38, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]