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?
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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.

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