Rethinking the Strong Force: What the Nuclear Force Curve Is Really Telling Us
A Brief Recap of Stein Theory
Stein Theory is a deterministic, geometric framework proposing that all matter and forces emerge from a single fundamental entity: the stein — a two-dimensional spinning disk. It is a full-blown Theory of Everything, and if you’re interested, you can download a copy of the book explaining it all totally free from Researchgate at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390108218_Stein_Theory_2nd_Edition_finished
But it isn’t a quick read. It is 66,000 words! The entire theory was derived from the premise that quantum mechanics, for all its predictive success, might be nothing more than a statistical surface effect—a probabilistic shadow cast by deeper, deterministic geometric interactions occurring beneath the resolution of quantum theory. Rather than postulating uncertainty, Stein Theory begins with certainty, and shows how the chaos we observe arises from the elegant clockwork of countless spinning disks, whose interactions—though individually simple—generate all the complexity of matter, energy, and force. The entire theory has been created from that premise, using only logical reasoning and careful elimination of competing solutions.
Each stein interacts with others through a mechanism called the Cylinder of Influence (COI), a conceptual infinite cylinder aligned with its spin axis, the same diameter as the stein. When two steins align their COIs, they interact gravitationally. When their disks begin to overlap physically, a much stronger interaction emerges – the strong force. These basic interactions, mediated purely by geometry, give rise to gravity, electromagnetism, the strong forces, and possibly many more that have yet to be discovered. The Weak Force, by the way, does not exist in stein theory. It neither needs nor recognises it as valid.
Stein Theory suggests that quantum mechanics is not fundamental, but a statistical approximation of deterministic stein interactions at a deeper level. With precise estimates for stein mass, size, spin angular momentum, and interaction timing, the theory is now mature enough to explain physical constants using geometry alone. In fact, here is the full set of actual data we have for stein fundamental values so far:
The Strong Force Reconsidered
While refining Stein Theory’s force models, we took a deeper look at the strong nuclear force and realized something striking: the standard interpretation of the strong force curve is fundamentally mischaracterized. The conventional curve shows a rapid increase in attractive force as particles come within a femtometer, peaking sharply before transitioning to confinement. But the assumption is that this entire curve is the result of one unified interaction: the strong force.
Stein Theory reveals this isn’t the case. The so-called “strong force curve” is actually a hybrid of two distinct geometric regimes:
Enhanced Gravity Regime: As two steins approach one another, their COIs begin to intersect. Although the gravitational interaction is binary (on/off depending on alignment), its effective strength increases dramatically as they draw closer. This is due to increasing angular subtension — the solid angle occupied by the other stein within your COI grows rapidly with proximity. The closer they get, the higher the likelihood and density of aligned interactions. This produces a steep, inverse-square-like rise in effective attraction. It’s still geometry-driven gravity.
Strong Force Trigger: At a specific threshold distance — ~1.0 × 10^-18 m — the steins begin to physically overlap. Their disks intersect. At this point, a qualitatively new interaction emerges: the strong force, which in Stein Theory is not a field or a particle exchange, but the direct geometric coupling of stein faces. This interaction is nonlinear, extremely strong, and localized. It is this intersection regime that produces confinement and high-energy nuclear effects.
So the nuclear force curve isn’t one force at all. It’s a compound response:
A steep gravitational ramp-up from angular subtension.
Followed by an abrupt transition to true strong-force dominance at the disk-overlap threshold.
Why This Matters
This reinterpretation unifies gravity and the strong force as two expressions of the same underlying interaction, separated only by geometry. It also explains why the strong force appears to ramp up suddenly, then flatline into confinement. That’s not a smooth curve — it’s a threshold crossing.
Conventional QCD models this behavior statistically, using field theory and color charge to account for quark confinement. But Stein Theory shows that what QCD captures is not a fundamental force — it’s an emergent approximation of underlying deterministic geometry. We fully describe the workings of the strong force, and quark structure, including what conventional physics calls colour, confinement etc in the book. We also show that we have no need for a Weak force, only gravity, strong and EM forces. The next edition of the book will expand to include a large set of other forces that could and may exist in other parts of the universe, or could be made. The latest count was 18, but it’s growing fast.
The New Perspective
The experimental curve for the strong force remains valid, but its interpretation changes entirely. The data isn’t wrong. It was just misunderstood. It’s actually a combination of gravity and the strong force.
Conclusion
The strong force isn’t a mystery anymore. Stein theory describes exactly how it works very clearly and in doing so, answers a multitude of physics questions.
This is not the rejection of QCD, but its recontextualization. QCD is an interesting and useful mathematical model of the higher level statistical view. Stein Theory is a detailed description of the precise nature of the single fundamental particle and how it behaves to create all the other particles, forces and behaviours we observe.