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Re: superposition

A. R. Marlow wrote:
<snip> . The color force, mediated by quarks, is
another example -- the quarks themselves carry color charge.


Although it it true that the quarks possess color charge, I suspect that you
meant to say that "the *gluons* themselves carry color charge", since it is
the gluon color charge that is related to the nonlinear/nonabelian nature of
the strong interaction rather than the quark colors.

David Bowman
dbowman@gtc.georgetown.ky.us