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THE forces between the constituents of a nucleus are ‘short-range’ forces, which have no appreciable effect over distances of more than a few times 1O-13 cm. Hence it is impossible to find the laws of force by extrapolation from large-scale observations (as in the case of Coulomb's law) and the only possible lines of attack are either, to deduce the law of force from direct observations on the properties of nuclei, or to derive them from some simpler, and more general, laws.
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PEIERLS, R. The Theory of Nuclear Forces*. Nature 145, 687–690 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145687a0
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