>> Forces due to a dipole effect (like magnetism) fall off like 1/r^3, while the strong nuclear force is exp(-x) I thought I read the strong force also dropped

>> Forces due to a dipole effect (like magnetism) fall off like 1/r^3, while the strong nuclear force is exp(-x) I thought I read the strong force also dropped like 1/r^3, but also that it was very hard to characterize it at all.