Take the tour ×  Why are the strong and weak nuclear forces
short range?  Are quarks confined or welded together?  Why are
elementary particles confined at short range?  Or is color
confinement color welding?  the quarks are glued together by
strong nuclear force, (but not at high energy) it seems to me
that its a kind of elementary welding process.  share|improve
this question Because the gauge bosons are massive –  Dilaton
Jun 20 at 15:05 Can you clarify what you mean by "welded"? – 
Kyle Jun 20 at 15:12 add comment  closed as not a real question
by user1504, Chris White, twistor59, Nathaniel, Brandon Enright
Jun 25 at 5:08   1 Answer  Let us clear up a few basic concepts.
Physics is about studying the way nature is . To start with,
this could be descriptive, as it was for centuries before
Newton. Descriptive does not answer "why" but "how" questions,
in the same way that a map does not really answer "why" the
landscape is like that, but describes as accurately as possible
the "how" the landscape really is