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# Oh man.
I couldn't remember much about gluons so I looked on Wikipedia to brush up. Now my brain is somewhere in my shoes.
(I helped save b3ta! Zumf Ham banjo, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:07, archived)
# I never had a clue about it D:
(I helped save b3ta! Bela Lugosi's Dad, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:10, archived)
# Well of course everyone knows...
The gluon is a vector boson; like the photon, it has a spin of 1. While massive spin-1 particles have three polarization states, massless gauge bosons like the gluon have only two polarization states because gauge invariance requires the polarization to be transverse.
(I helped save b3ta! Zumf Ham banjo, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:12, archived)
# well, duh.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:23, archived)
# gauge boson, that carries the strong colour charge.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Mon 6 Oct 2008, 13:11, archived)