The Fundamental Forces

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By Etarip

Inside the Large Hadron Collider
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Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Source: LHC
The Four Fundamental Forces
The Four Fundamental Forces
Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Source: LHC

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  • The Fundamental Forces of nature, the forces that keep everything in balance, everything in existence, and is everything according to physics. The are so far 4 fundamental forces of nature but could there be more? Do we understand all of them? Why are they important?

The Force Carriers

  • The Force carriers in the Fundamental forces are Gluons, W and Z bosons, Photons, and Gravitons, these carriers exhibit the four fundamental forces:
  • Strong, Weak, Electromagnetism, and Gravity
  • These forces help us to better understand how and why things occur not just on the quantum level but every level of existence. These forces are governed by a set of laws and theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics, the Electroweak Theory, Quantum Electrodynamics, and Quantum Gravity. Gravity is the most puzzling force of nature because it is the only force that seems to not have its own quantum particle.
  • In nature we can look at a atom and on the quantum mechanical scale see the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic forces. There are physical particles that exhibit those conditions. The problem of the Four Fundamental Forces is Gravity. We have not yet seen Gravity's quantum particle, this raises suspicion that maybe Gravity does not exist, maybe gravity does not have a particle and thats OK, or maybe the Theory of Everything will help explain in.

The Theory of Everything

  • The Theory of Everything outline by Albert Einstein suggests that there should be a universal equation used to describe every fundamental force of nature. Einstein said that gravity is the force that allows for the movement of planets, the creation of galaxies, and maybe our universe, but what if General Relativity is wrong, what do we do now? We blow things up!

Particle Physics

  • In order to better clarify everything, is every particles that interacts will the present dimension in a state that we can observe it. For us to prove Einstein's Theory of Everything we would have to find all of the particles that exhibit forces. For that we created Hadron Colliders, the most infimous being the LHC. Collider's allow particles to reach a plasma state where they are collided into each other in order to find out what is inside and what can we measure from it.
  • The Effects of the research at the LHC and many other Colliders now have unified the existence of 3 of the 4 fundamental forces of Nature. The elusive force of gravity is what scientists are turning their attention toward.

The "God Particle"

  • The common error among people assuming that finding the fundamental forces of nature will somehow remove the existence of God or create a black hole or whatever, is completely unnecessary. The God Particle is actually the Graviton, the reference to God is actually the hope that the graviton can finally bring us to the conclusion of Einstein's hypothesis about there being a universal theory amount all forces of nature.

Recent News in Particle Physics

  • The Cornell University Collider Facility has recorded an anomaly in their recorded information from a standard hadron collision. The mass of the unknown particle is between the week and the the strong forces, and it just might be the graviton!

Video on the LHC, its a bit old but it describes it well.

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