The crisis of ”naked” colour in Quantum Chromodynamics

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), as a part of the Standard Model of particle physics, is the most successful theory of the strong interaction at present. However, as shown by the author, it predicts a colour dependence of the electric charge of the quarks. This colour dependence is consistent with all that we know of QCD for three colours and for arbitrary number of colours; except that it brings about a direct conflict with the experimentally well-known coulomb interaction of the electric charges of quarks and leptons. This leads directly to QCD predicting naked colour interaction in electrodynamics at large distances. This is completely unacceptable and is thus a major crisis for QCD. Note that this crisis cannot be swept aside, as the issue of the naked colour is as fundamenatal a prediction of QCD as that of the asymptotic freedom was.