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The force that holds protons and neutrons inside the nucleus is officially called the strong nuclear force. This is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe (the others being gravitation, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force). Scientists are still trying to work out exactly why these forces exist. It has been hypothesized that the basic forces of the universe came into being at the time of the Big Bang and are essentially a random byproduct of that event.

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