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gluon

noun
/ˈɡluː.ɒn/UK/ˈɡlu.ɑn/US

Etymology

From glue + -on. From being a particle (suffix "-on") that "glues" (attracts) together particles that feel the force carried by the gluon. Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1962.

  1. derived from glūten
  2. derived from glūs
  3. derived from glu
  4. inherited from glew
  5. suffixed as gluon — “glue + on”

Definitions

  1. A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other…

    A massless gauge boson that binds quarks together to form baryons, mesons and other hadrons and is associated with the strong nuclear force.

    • Naive realism might ask today: Tell me what space is in itself, not in terms of other things. Tell me what a gluon is at bottom, or a neutrino, or a charge.
    • Lattice QCD explores the particle realm by taking a different tack. It simulates quark and gluon behaviors by applying the full QCD theory to a tiny grid like facsimile of the space-time in which particles actually interact.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at gluon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at gluon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at gluon

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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