Posted on 04/27/2016 7:17:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
When it comes to the fundamental laws of nature, we can break everything down into four forces that are at the core of everything in the Universe:
The strong nuclear force: the force responsible for holding atomic nuclei and individual protons and neutrons together. The electromagnetic force: the force that attracts and repels charged particles, binds atoms together into molecules and life, and causes electric current, among other things. The weak nuclear force: the force responsible for some types of radioactive decay and the transmutation of heavy, unstable fundamental particles into lighter ones. And gravity: the force that bind the Earth, the Solar System and the stars and galaxies together.
Depending on how you look at it, each force has a scale and a circumstance under which it shines above all others.
Go down to the smallest scales — 10^-16 meters, or a million times smaller than an atom — and the strong nuclear force can overcome all the others. Take the helium nucleus, for example: two protons and two neutrons, bound together in a stable configuration. Even the electromagnetic repulsion between the two protons isn’t enough to overcome the glue-like strong force holding the nucleus together. Even if you take a neutron away, leaving you with two protons and just one neutron, that isotope of helium is stable as well. The strong force, at the tiniest distances, will consistently overcome all the others, and hence under many circumstances can be considered the strongest.....
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No force could keep me in the same room as Hillary or Bernie.
What Is The Strongest Force In The Universe?
Right now? Donald Trump.
Don’t know, but Chuck Norris can bend it.
Chuck Norris?
Exlax....it can knock the crap outta Superman
Bad news
Nothing travels faster, not even light
Right now? Donald Trump.
How odd, I would have said God, as a matter of fact I still say God!
The desire to copulate with rats. - Ted Cruz
How odd, I would have said God, as a matter of fact I still say God!
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Sorry, but here in the FR universe its trump.
Nice, I believe that is promotional from Invasion U.S.A. I still say God is the strongest force in the universe, but Chuck works for him.
Love is the strongest force in the universe.
Something is faster. A bill when you’re dead broke.
Gravity sucks.
******************************************************** Sorry, but here in the FR universe its trump.
Maybe for some, but I don't live here, I just visit, and worship only one God.
I can’t argue with that. Having said that, some people have no sense of humor.
The compulsion of buttered toast to land butter-side down; matched only by a cat’s ability to land right side up. Theorists have suggested that placing a piece of buttered toast, butter side upwards, on a cat’s back, could give rise to the world’s first practical perpetual motion machine.
Great summary of the forces. I really expected at least a couple of folks actually commenting on the physics.
We must remember that (climate change “research” aside), science is the one remaining bastion against the idiocracy.
However, it appears that “Idiocracy” is in our future and “The Machine Stops” will be the ending sentence.
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