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.....
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Governmentium?
Depends on how far away the object is...
Up close, the Strong Nuclear force, then the weak nuclear force, then electromagnetism, then finally gravity....
Stupidity.
White Castle Privilege is a force that only kicks in late at night. At least it used to for me.
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LOL!!!
Now that's why I keep coming back to FR -- despite all the political nastiness...
Everyone needs a bit of humorous wackiness in their day!
Thanks for making mine!! '-)
No way. Norris is second to no one.
LOVE
Or the Hollies. It’s close, but let that go
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
They usually kick out...
Sometimes forcefully.
https://www.amherst.edu/news/faculty/node/457128
I thought I remembered something about a fifth force.
God for sure. Then it’s thought by some that for an instant before the creation event that all forces were unified, but the symmetry broke following the inflationary epoch, when the velocity of light was established...and from thereon the expansion proceeded “normally” to the current period.
But again, God for sure.
And M-Theory, in possibly 11 dimensions.
How did I know you were going to say that.
Right now? Donald Trump.
The usual answer to that question is "Stupidity", but hey!
Did you say something?
Love.
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