ABSTRACT
The deep-rooted significance of the oscillator model in physics is due to the fact that within this model a transition can be performed from a continuous basis to a discrete basis and vice-versa. Hence the harmonic oscillator is the essential bridge which connects the continuous (classical) to the discrete (quantum). Thus it is the harmonic oscillator which allows the classical (continuous) and the quantum (discrete) realities to coexist peacefully, thereby providing an underlying Manichaean duality to the same physical reality. In a baryon three-body force, entities like a three-gluon vertex arise in Quantum Chromodynamics itself. These are definitely not negligible. The dominance of a two-body N -N force is evident from phenomenological studies of the nucleus. It is presumed that the same holds of hadrons in terms of the forces between quarks as well.
