Could EM/strong/weak force be expressed geometrically?

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gravity is expressed geometrically. is this expression unique to gravity or are there formallism that allow charge/EM, color/strong force, and weak force to also be expressed geometrically?
 
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Heim Theory.
 
That's actually what physicists used to look for. It was the hope of Einstein to explain all the forces in geometrical terms. But since they have had more luck combining the other three forces, physicists are trying to express gravity in quantum terms. And it was done with String Theory. The theory actually requires the existence of a particle called a graviton. One goal of modern physics is to locate these gravitons and find out where they come from.
 
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gravity is expressed geometrically. is this expression unique to gravity or are there formallism that allow charge/EM, color/strong force, and weak force to also be expressed geometrically?

You might want to take a look at (my) posts #6 and #8 in https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=684671".
 
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Gauge theories are geometric.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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