AMA | October 2024

14202.123 - 14226.535 Sean Carroll

It was only later, not much later, because people are very clever and they were thinking around, people like Yoshiro Nambu and others started asking, well, could color, this new quantum number – again, it wasn't called color at the time – but could this new quantum number – be the basis for some new symmetry, an SU3 symmetry, and could that provide the force that holds the particles together?