We know what Trump was doing; talking on TV about how his tower was now the tallest.

Some kind of lactation joke?

please please please please please can we join???

I get it. My grandma's remains have been in my kitchen for more than ten years now. It's been on my TODO list the whole time, but like, she's not going anywhere.

Yes, we can create an artificial environment that can host a tree literally anywhere on Earth. That's not the same thing.

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I misremembered. Gluons don't bind the nuclear particles to each other, they bind the sub-nuclear quarks into nuclear particles.

It turns out that glueballs don't come from "taking the quarks out" of regular matter but by some kind of direct excitation of the colour charge field -- a thing I didn't even know was a thing.

They're still lying to us, today. Tobacco, oil, sugar, dairy, eggs, meat, it's all the same playbook.

A snake would prefer to be in their natural habitat to a sweater.

They are expressing their insecurity that you will outgrow them.

A nucleus is a balance of forces in tension. The particles are trying to fly apart at relativistic speeds, but they are held together by an even stronger force. This tension represents energy, and energy produces gravity -- which is a way of saying it has mass. The vast majority of all mass in the familiar world comes entirely from that tension.

So, somehow you can take all the protons and neutrons out of a nucleus, and still have that knot of forces held in tension? Acting on "nothing"? On spacetime? On itself? Non-locally on the original particles?

Or, can these knots be created without even having a nucleus to start from?

I would date a rat if they lived more than 2-4 years. Amazing people, just the finest folks.