Ligism

Ligism was an artificial force that was carried by ligon particles. This force was created to help stabilize hadrons and nuclei that would not normally be stable under gluism. Due to the complexity of gluism on the quark level, most hadrons other than neutrons and protons were extremely unstable, and due to the limited range of gluism on the nuclear level, nuclei with more than 200 protons and neutrons were often unstable as well.

Ligism could be introduced to hadrons or nuclei using various exotic vector particles, and once introduced would hold the particles in the system together indefinitely. This technique could be used to stabilize substances that would normally be incredibly unstable, such as immensely heavy chemical elements and many types of exotic hadron, including pentaquarks and hexaquarks.

Ligism was distinct from equilism, another artificial force used to stabilize unstable fundamental particles. Equilism was far more difficult to create and introduce to particles than ligism.