Why a new physics theory could rewrite the textbooks

I wish there was a source reporting on this that could translate it into more casual language. It *sounds* interesting but it's hard to follow.

On Friday, January 29th, 2016 at 5:10 pm, EyeConduit said:

Ideally, that's the job of the science journalists. However, it's not often the case, as they may sensationalize or misrepresent research.

And, looks like the phys.org link has a link to the paper on ArXiv, so here it is, if anyone wants to try and go through the actual article. I might give it a read later, but I doubt I'd be able to make much sense of it, myself. If I do get a gist of things, I'll toss up what I can figure out.

user link on arxiv.org

Cool. Just for fun, I'm going to try to read it and see what, if anything, I can understand about this.

On Friday, January 29th, 2016 at 5:24 pm, vega7285 said:

Normally, in an ideal world, I would expect the abstract of an article to summarize the topic of the paper in such a way that you get the basic idea. This abstract, however, left me with with more questions than answers.

What I understand is that this is about QCD, that is Quantum-Chromo-Dynamics, that is the theory behind the strong force of nuclear interaction. And the "chromo-" (colour) part is not to be understood literally, its just that particle physicists found a colourful (pun intended) metaphor for describing the interaction processes involved.

Quarks have to interact somehow, so they do so by a "color" charge which comes in three "flavors" I think it is. Red, Green, and Blue. And these interact in specific ways, which I can't remember off the top of my head. I do know part of QCD does allow for quarks to change color as part of their interactions.