Theory:
Optical wave shift (red, green and blue shift) of quark/gluon field is what creates color force/strong nuclear force. It takes one red, one green, and one blue quark to make a proton. Each gluon is one color and one anticolor (not always same color - this is how quarks swap colors). The stability of the proton is the realignment of the optical color shift to white (complete light wave).
It makes sense in a mathematical geometric way but not in how much energy the strong nuclear force has way (unless compressing and color shifting light field - is a lot more energy than I think). Also the realignment of the color shifts to white is probably what interacts with the Higgs field to create mass.