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middistance91
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First off, I would like to apologize if I'm posting this in the wrong sub-forum.
Anyways, I'm sorry if this is an ignorant question, but I am curious as to whether the 4 fundamental forces (electricity and magnetism, gravitation, strong, and weak) would theoretically continue to break down into other forces at lower energies.
I ask this because I read that at very very very high energies they are all manifestations of the same force, and at the beginning of the universe it was like this. As the energy dissipated, gravitation broke off, then the strong nuclear, then electricity and magnetism and the weak nuclear.
Are these 4 the most that it can go, or, at low energies, can they also break down into seemingly unrelated forces.
Once again, I am sorry if this is a no-brainer.
Anyways, I'm sorry if this is an ignorant question, but I am curious as to whether the 4 fundamental forces (electricity and magnetism, gravitation, strong, and weak) would theoretically continue to break down into other forces at lower energies.
I ask this because I read that at very very very high energies they are all manifestations of the same force, and at the beginning of the universe it was like this. As the energy dissipated, gravitation broke off, then the strong nuclear, then electricity and magnetism and the weak nuclear.
Are these 4 the most that it can go, or, at low energies, can they also break down into seemingly unrelated forces.
Once again, I am sorry if this is a no-brainer.