Abstract
There is a great deal of interest in the nature of the strong force of particle physics, one of the four known forces in the Universe. It has a fascinating personality - in normal circumstances its force of 15 tonnes confines quarks together into protons, but at temperatures above a few trillion Kelvin, such as occurred just after the Big Bang, it is feeble and protons fall apart. This talk will give an overview of particle physics at an undergraduate level, before giving a possible explanation of this confinement property using simple clock arithmetic and vortices.
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