The Hypothetical Nuclear Strong Force Is Not What Holds a Nucleus Together

The nuclear strong force has been measured using colision of very fast protons and (anti)protons. When they colide fast enough, the interaction is from a quark in one of them with a quark in the other, and that siplifies the calculations.

(Inside a proton or neutron, there is like a soup of virtual quarks and gluons, and that makes any calculation more difficult.)

There are many mistakes in the article. Let's pick one:

> It is that the nucleons of a nucleus link together through spin pairing into chains involving modules of the form -neutron-proton-proton-neutron- or equivalently proton-neutron-neutron-proton-. These chains can close forming rings.

> The first one consists of two protons and two neutrons in a closed chain module of the form -n-p-p-n- (or, equivalently -p-n-n-p-). This is equivalent to an alpha particle (He 4 nucleus). Thus such chain modules can be appropriately called alpha modules.

This is in contradiction with a lot of quantum mechanic results. Inside a nucleus the protons and the neutrons don't have a position. You only have a wavefunction that gives a probability didtribution to find it. It's very similar to the "clouds of probabilities" associated with the orbitals of the electrons but much smaller. Some nice graphics https://www.google.com/search?q=electron+orbitals&udm=2

In particular, in a alpha particle the 4 objects are not in a ring (like in the article) or in a grape (like in the usual graphic). They are all distributed in a small spherical cloud that looks like a 1S of the electrons.

Classic "I have a PhD in economics, so I ALONE understand nuclear physics" not-even-wrong gibberish.