Roberto Pavani
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- Gravity dominates at cosmological scales even though it is not stronger than electromagnetis, simply because matter is electrically neutral on average?
We know that gravity is much weaker than electromagnetism at the particle level (~10⁻³⁶ ratio).
Yet gravity is the dominant interaction at cosmological scales.
It seems to me that the explanation (my naive one) is straightforward: matter is electrically neutral on average, so EM fields from different sources cancel at large distances. Gravity, having no negative "charge," accumulates without cancellation.
If this is correct, then the so-called "hierarchy problem" between gravity and EM is not really about the coupling constants themselves, but about the statistical distribution of charges in the universe.
Is this view standard/accepted/discussed, or am I oversimplifying something?
Yet gravity is the dominant interaction at cosmological scales.
It seems to me that the explanation (my naive one) is straightforward: matter is electrically neutral on average, so EM fields from different sources cancel at large distances. Gravity, having no negative "charge," accumulates without cancellation.
If this is correct, then the so-called "hierarchy problem" between gravity and EM is not really about the coupling constants themselves, but about the statistical distribution of charges in the universe.
Is this view standard/accepted/discussed, or am I oversimplifying something?