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What Is The Strongest Force In The Universe?
Forbes ^ | 26 Apr, 2016 | Ethan Siegel

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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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: god; physics; stringtheory
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To: MtnClimber

God


21 posted on 04/27/2016 7:31:23 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: MtnClimber

Aaahh...The vagina?


22 posted on 04/27/2016 7:31:37 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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To: freedom6178
I can’t argue with that. Having said that, some people have no sense of humor.

FRiend I normally have a good sense of humor, of course I am often the only one that thinks I'm funny, it's just that my humor has been sorely tested here lately. I am so looking forward to when we go back to just hating liberals,sexual perverts and deviants, communists, socialists, reconquistas and separationists instead of eating our own.

23 posted on 04/27/2016 7:35:18 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Da Coyote

When political indoctrination becomes the focus of government, the sciences and truth are feared.


24 posted on 04/27/2016 7:38:34 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ll say God.

But of all the forces that God created, I’ve heard it said that love is the strongest force. I can’t really argue with that.


25 posted on 04/27/2016 7:38:36 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: MtnClimber
What Is The Strongest Force In The Universe?

Stupidity, ignorance and political elected criminals.

In the case of the US Congress too many qualify as all three.

26 posted on 04/27/2016 7:39:48 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: MtnClimber

Strongest force in the universe? A sack of bran muffins an hour before a rush hour traffic jam.


27 posted on 04/27/2016 7:40:59 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: freedom6178; CaptainMorgantown

Norris trumps Trump.

Trump wears Chuck Norris underwear.

When it’s time for Mexico to pay for the wall, Chuck Norris will collect the check.


28 posted on 04/27/2016 7:43:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Jonty30
Nonsense. Truth is the strongest force—long since forgotten. John 8:32: You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
29 posted on 04/27/2016 7:43:14 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: MtnClimber
RAT attraction to power and money
30 posted on 04/27/2016 7:43:48 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Fungi

MERCHANDISING!


31 posted on 04/27/2016 7:44:38 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


32 posted on 04/27/2016 7:45:02 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

You mad, bro?


33 posted on 04/27/2016 7:45:12 PM PDT by Defiant (The Shills are alive, with the sound of Cruz-ick....)
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To: MtnClimber

Stupidity.
— Einstein


34 posted on 04/27/2016 7:46:29 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: LS

35 posted on 04/27/2016 7:47:17 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country
Sorry, but here in the FR universe its trump.

Only if you choose to dwell on the Cruz fruits and nuts.

I find them quite easy to ignore.

Whether it deals with Trump or any other topic.

36 posted on 04/27/2016 7:47:40 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: MtnClimber

Strongest force in the universe? After God...compound interest.


37 posted on 04/27/2016 7:48:36 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Larry Lucido

Trump/Norris 2016


38 posted on 04/27/2016 7:48:38 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: Fungi

The strongest force in the universe is White Privilege./s

(You would think it was these days.)

.


39 posted on 04/27/2016 7:48:39 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Allen In Texas Hill Country

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.


Are you placing Trump and FR before God?

I’d like an answer.


40 posted on 04/27/2016 7:48:59 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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