This is correct. The strong force provides an attractive force over very short distances. It's Strong because it overpowers the repulsive electromagnetic force that would otherwise force all the protons in the nucleus apart.

As far as I know, there isn't even a formula for strong nuclear forces.

If the study gathers more evidence, its possible this could knock down a lot of our classical models of physics.
It gives evidence to higher spacial dimensions, and hints to what else there is out there.

This post was edited by LD4all on Jul 4 2012 12:51pm

They didn't find the Higgs Boson. They found something like the Higgs Boson. It doesn't have the properties that they thought it would have.

1600 trillion collisions spending billions of dollars to find something "like" the Higgs. well played science, well played

finding something totally new , that wasnt even predicted
very well played indeed

+1
imo mankind should have given up on physics after Newton, we'd be much better off

Isnt it the "spending to find Higgs" the same of distributing money throughout different individuals? .. I can only see good things coming out of this "spending money"..
Evolution, and JOBS.

This is inaccurate. They found a previously undiscovered boson (a subatomic particle with integer spin as opposed to half-integer spin). They have yet to completely verify that it's the Higgs Boson specifically, though. That's it.

I thought the Higgs Boson had zero spin?

I'm pretty sure that QCD is somewhat well documented.