What made them bind together is Quantum mechanics...According to Quantum mechanics the less massive a particle is the higher the uncertinity of determining its position and momentum simultaneously which is well known as Heisenberg`s Uncertinity principle...What that means is that there is possibility of subatomic particle to exist at two places at the same time...and they can be present anywhere....we can only predict the chance of finding it somewhere....It is because they not only exist in Our universe but they also exist in Universes parallel to ours....they disappear from Our universe momentarily to another Universe and reappear after sometime....That means the electrons and protons in your body are also part of something in some other universes...maybe a part of another star...or maybe part of cow dung...lol....we cannot tell for sure....What this implies in nuclear fusion is when these protons hit at each other there is a probability that they may collide and go away in different directions...or they may disappear and reappear within the other particle to make them fuse together....The fused nucleus are held together by Residual strong nuclear force...Strong nuclear force holds the two up quarks and one down quark inside a proton and their remaining force is what binds to other quarks in other protons or neutrons...Thats why we call them residual strong nuclear force....But this residual strong nuclear for has a maximum range..
The each force is carried out by virtual particles of its own... Our Universe is filled with virtual particles....they come into existence once they get some energy...The for of Electromagnetism is carried out by photos....they are massless virtual particles travelling at speed of light which can travel for infinite distance if there are no obstruction...Since they are travelling at the speed of light time do not exist for them...they can be present anywhere in our universe at the same time...means the same photon can exist in many places in the universe and interact with themselves...from their aspect the universe do not exist...because they do not experience any time...they see the universe starting with a big bang and ending in big rip which is 30 billion yrs from now in no time....they feel they do not even exist....Time is a funny thing...Its is present all around you...The faster you travel the slower the time goes for you from an outside observer but you do not feel any change...travel close to the speed of light a second for you will become a million years for an observer on earth...that way you can really travel to future...many millions of years in future and still stay alive... theoretically if you travel faster than light your mass become infinity,and you start to travel back in time...i will come to this time issue later because there is more and more interesting stuff in time...
So the virtual particle for strong nuclear force are called Gluons....they have mass and can travel to only 10`-81 m( 10 raised to minus 81 meters)( the maximum size of an atom possible )...The virtual particles for weak nuclear for is called W & Z bosons....they are the heaviest...and their range of action is smaller than the diameter of Neutron...They are responsible for the radioactive decay....The last force Gravity( I think so unless we discover some other new force when we discover out what dark energy and dark matter is ) is mediated by virtual particles called Gravitons...we think so...we have not discovered that particle yet...at the sub atomic level gravity is very very weak and we cant even detect them....But they have the largest range of action...Gravity is a negative fore...that is why we are constantly pulled down towards earth and we have to apply a counter positive force to stay at one place...in our case the electrons in the outer orbit of your chair are repelling the electrons in your body and holding you from falling towards the centre of the earth....the whole gravitational force of earth is counter balanced by some electrons in your body....that much weak is actually gravity is...but do not be carried away...Gravity is as strong as other forces...Baffled ?...I will explain it to you...
According to m-theory Our universe is the not the only one...there are infinite no of universes called the Multiverses....And there are infinite multiverses...Our Universe is a large membrane and we are all made of smallest particles of all called Strings...The strings in our body ...rather tall the strings that make up our universe are glued to the membrane of the Universe we live in...even though the next universe is only one billionth of a mm away from you , you can never touch or pass into it because your strings are glued to the 11D membrane our universe is made of...But Gravitons can leave our universe and escape into other universes from ours....So it is spread out...That is why it appears so weak to us...The Gravity...Hope i am not frying your brain...but i cant help....This is the way our universe is...
To be continued...

