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  • You’re talking about electroweak unification. They’re unified because the force carriers of the weak interactions are charged bosons, which implies they also interact electromagnetically. Therefore you can’t physically describe the weak force without including electromagnetism. However these two forces are still fundamentally different.





  • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoScience Memes@mander.xyz4 fundamental forces
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    16 hours ago

    It’s not a meme about the strength but about how complex the physics are.

    The weak interaction breaks a lot of symmetries that hold in EM and strong interactions, like CP symmetry. Its gauge symmetry is also completely wild: SU(2)L x U(1)Y, compared to U(1) for EM and SU(3) for the strong interaction. And finally there’s also neutrino oscillations related to that. So to me the weak interaction is like a derpy brother to the other two.

    Then gravity is something completely different and we are yet to figure out how to describe it in quantum physics. So that’s why I chose that creature.