(December 17, 2008 at 3:27 pm)CoxRox Wrote: I wonder what causes these sub atomic particles to come together to form atoms? You've got the forces too?? It sounds like you'd need organisation or dare I say fore-thought??I know this one!!!
Gluons (awesome name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluons
Oh yes, and the images on that page really don't do the atom any justice. Here is a scale model of the radius of a Hydrogen Atom (the proton is 1000 pixels across, and the electron is 1 pixel and situated 50 million pixels to the right of the proton (thats a lot of scrolling):
http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/atom/index.html
