Independently, they developed the theory and the mathematical equations to show that Quarks are held together by the strong force ~ which, unlike any other force in the universe, gets stronger as the quarks get farther apart ~ a concept now known as "Asymptotic Freedom ".
The simplest analogy is to a rubber band encircling two objects. When the objects are close together, the rubber band fits loosely. But as they are drawn apart, the rubber band stretches, trying to pull them back together.
Now, here is my take on these findings as applied to my Unified field of Love and Soul Consciousness.
The strong force in the atom is the urge to unite which is the principle property of my Unified Field. It is the same urge to unite that Bose and Einstein found when they discovered that photons (light particles) have a tendency to travel together versus act randomly ~ which eventually led to the discovery of the laser.
It is also the same urge to unite that Teilhard de Chardin speaks of when he wrote ~ If there were no real propensity to unite , even at a prodigiously rudimentary level, indeed, in the molecule itself ~ it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up in the ' hominized ' or human form.
It is also the same urge to unite that loved ones feel when they are separated from each other ~ and the further apart the stronger the pull to be back together ~ even from beyond time and space and even lifetimes for that matter as I most certainly feel with my beloved Keiko.
Now wouldn't it make sense that Galaxies would be affected by this same asymptotic freedom as they move away from each other as those quarks are feeling in the depths of the sub atomic world ? So the strong force in the atom is operating in deep space keeping the galaxies together like it also operates in keeping the nuclei of atoms together.
Breathtaking isn't to realize that a force field operating deepest within our own molecular structure is also operating and has been operating since the Big Bang in the deepest regions of space.
In fully opening my heart, not only have I discovered the Unified Field of love and soul consciousness but I have gained access to the Universe ~ for in seeing through my heart I can see and feel my oneness with the Universe. But I actually have accessed a universal state of love and soul consciousness which I once knew as a very young and innocent child.
As Mafouz once wrote ~ When the heart achieves its desire, you shall transcend time and space ~ and my heart's desire has always been to love so deeply that I would become a fragment of life's heart.
As such, the strong force in the atom is the Unified Field ~ the basic attractive force of the universe which thrillingly exists in the world of the atom as well as in deep space ~ and this is the truth that shall set everything ablaze.
It was Teilhard de Chardin, the explorer of the soul whose life's work was the reinterpretation of Christianity in the light of evolution, who wrote in his last unpublished work " Le Christique " ( The Promised Land ) of the inevitable consequences when love was identified as the most primal and universal psychic energy ~ " Sooner or later there will be a chain reaction ~ for the truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally and setting everything ablaze. "
Now watch this four minute video of the Hubble ultra deep field and realize, as I have, that only love can connect us to both the vastness of the Universe and the unknown subatomic world of the atom ~ which should make us all feel far less insignificant as well as deeply connected.