What Keeps a Nucleus Together? – Christmas Lectures with Frank Close

Positive charge repels other positive charges. So what kind of force keeps the proton filled nucleus from exploding apart?
Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1993/the-cosmic-onion/antimatter-matters?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

Frank Close gave the 1993 lectures “The Cosmic Onion” tracing a hundred years of discovery and invention

In his fourth lecture, Frank Close looks at the Large Electron Positron Collider, the predecessor to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Watch the full series: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1993/the-cosmic-onion?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description

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