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Old April 17th 13, 10:20 PM posted to sci.astro
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Default Residual Strong Nuclear Force vs. Dark Forces?

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In article ,
Yousuf Khan writes:
it must also be possible that
the gluons can completely escape the nucleus altogether,


Probably not, as someone else wrote.

I'm not talking a hell of a lot of them
escaping, maybe just 1% of 1% or something


If it's that small, how could it possibly give rise to non-baryonic
mass about six times larger than baryonic mass?

Also, it's been shown that Dark Energy didn't become an issue until
maybe 5 billion years after the Big Bang.


That's not (necesssarily) because dark energy was smaller earlier on,
it's because ordinary gravitational attraction was larger when the
Universe was denser. The actual time dependence of dark energy is
very much an open question today, but if dark energy is a
cosmological constant, its strength wouldn't vary in time.

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