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Offline Kosh

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A 5th force?
on: April 28, 2009, 09:13:59 am
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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #1 on: April 28, 2009, 09:23:37 am
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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #2 on: April 28, 2009, 09:25:17 am
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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #3 on: April 28, 2009, 09:38:44 am
Sounds plausible to me, especially since it's based on experimental data.

Technically, however, they're all one force past unification energy.
 

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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #4 on: April 28, 2009, 09:45:50 am
this article fails, there are three forces, not four.
strong nuclear, gravity and electroweak.
electromagnetism and the weak force have been found to be the same thing.
 

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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #5 on: April 28, 2009, 10:02:12 am
It talks about the electroweak coupling. And strong's been unified too, I think...

But unification isn't really relevant at these low energy levels due to symmetry breaking.

So no, it doesn't fail.
 

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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #6 on: April 28, 2009, 12:46:48 pm
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Reply #7 on: April 28, 2009, 04:02:03 pm
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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #8 on: April 28, 2009, 04:17:47 pm
Quote from: Topgun on April 28, 2009, 09:45:50 am
this article fails, there are three forces, not four.
strong nuclear, gravity and electroweak.
electromagnetism and the weak force have been found to be the same thing.

The fail is you, look up GUT. So far strong, weak and electromagnetic force have been found to be the same above a certain energy density. Gravity is strongly suspected to join in as well, and proving that is currently the holy grail of physics,
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Re: A 5th force?
Reply #9 on: April 28, 2009, 04:51:08 pm
Quote from: Col. Fishguts on April 28, 2009, 04:17:47 pm
Quote from: Topgun on April 28, 2009, 09:45:50 am
this article fails, there are three forces, not four.
strong nuclear, gravity and electroweak.
electromagnetism and the weak force have been found to be the same thing.

The fail is you, look up GUT. So far strong, weak and electromagnetic force have been found to be the same above a certain energy density. Gravity is strongly suspected to join in as well, and proving that is currently the holy grail of physics,

What he said.
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