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human
In NDT's Inexplicable Universe, he says that quarks are bonded together such that the pull gets stronger as they get farther apart. As a consequence, inputting enough energy to separate them instantaneously creates a new partner for each quark. How do we know this? Have we tried it?
gpt
Well, it kind of happens in particle colliders like LHC. If you produce quarks in a collision, then you don't end up seeing the single quarks, but a 'jet' of hadrons for each quark you have produced.  (edit: hadrons are bound states of quarks, that usually are made of either one quark and one anti-quark or three (anti-)quarks.)

One should probably mention that even though this hadronization can be seen as a direct consequence of color confinement, it is quite a complicated process, for which we only have rather inexact models.