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The 4 forces. An explanation of the nuclears.

Name: Anonymous 2006-07-05 15:27

A general description of modern science is that we have heavily observed and proved to what seems to be the highest level of precision possible, short of observing black holes to the maximum degree, that there are 4 major dynamics which are unrelated to each other beyond their effects on particles.

1: Gravity and space-time affects particles with mass and/or operate in space-time through fields.
2: Electromagnetism affects particles with positive or negative charges through fields and photons.

Can someone tell me which particles are affected by the other 2, their fields, particles etc.. If a particle is unobservable, like a graviton, I would prefer it if you described the process in terms of a field, which is observable.

3: Strong nuclear force
4: Weak nuclear force

Name: Anonymous 2006-07-07 5:15

I thought we had agreed that the "force of gravity" was caused by space-time deformation and not gravitons.
That's just a nice way to describe it. Problem is, general relativity doesn't go well together with quantum mechanics; things break if you try to put them together into one theory. So instead, you need a new theory of gravity that works with QM. It is likely and works best if this theory is also quantized, thus you need a model based on gravitons. We don't have a graviton theory yet that works even remotely as well as GR, but physicists pretty much seem to agree that there is such a thing as gravitons, at a deep enough level.

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