"Ok but why is the force binding these particles powerful enough to blast through population centers?"

"man what the fuck do I look like? Who cares?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#45298856)

"Ok but then how can there be that much force binding them?"

"Man I don't fuckin know. Are we gonna test this fuckin thing or we gonna get Stephen Hawking on the phone?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#45298879)

"Scientist": That's right, you can measure them both.

XO Poaster: So no matter what you measure you've decided in advance there's a nuclear force, are scientists supposed to come to a conclusion and then take a measurement to confirm it.

"Scientist": *looks for an escape route*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#45299968)

"But the strong nuclear force does exist."

Physicists and the mentally retarded are alike in their complete inability to compute counterfactuals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#45300042)

"Man who the fuck knows? The guy who brought the helium seemed sketch. It just has to look big to Stalin [makes bunny ears]."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#45300277)

“Where does it come from” is a legitimate science question if understood as HOW, i.e. what existed right before it in time, if anything, that influences it

But if where does it come from means WHY is it existing at all, that’s outside of the scientific method

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#48022324)

Also is that your final answer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#48022359)

Forcing why questions into it is like using a hammer as screwdriver. I need no credentials to see the problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#48022373)

you don't mean "where", which indicates a location in space.

you might mean "how did it get there", which is a way of asking, what existed before this force which caused it to exist in the manner it does? Mark that as question A

but the framing slips easily into "why does this force exist at all, versus it not existing". question B

A is amenable to the scientific method, B is not.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5208085&forum_id=2#48022393)