the same mass, no matter where they are on the periodic table.-Well you can have a heavy bowling ball sitting on a shelf for months and months. Its exerting force all the time but theres nothing happening with energy here. Something has to move relative to a force for energy to happen.Yes,......
Still though, the mass associated with the nuclear energy involved in binding the nucleus, is still just peanuts compared to the masses of the subatomic particles on their own. That is how both a proton and a neutron seem to have, approximately, the same mass, no matter where they are on the periodic table.
Well you can have a heavy bowling ball sitting on a shelf for months and months. It's exerting force all the time but there's nothing happening with energy here. Something has to move relative to a force for energy to happen.
Yes, the strong force is the strongest, and there's a lot of energy there. On the other hand it's limited because the size is so small. Energy depends on the force and the distance moved. There's not much distance within the nucleus to move.
Yes, the energy manifests as mass, and there is a lot of mass in the nucleus. Nearly all the mass we know about in the universe is in nuclei. (There is dark matter, but we don't know what that is yet.) Of course each nucleus contains not much mass from our perspective, but that's just because we're made of millions of nuclei. So obviously each one seems small to us.
