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What Is The Strongest Force In The Universe?
Forbes ^ | 26 Apr, 2016 | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 04/27/2016 7:17:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber

When it comes to the fundamental laws of nature, we can break everything down into four forces that are at the core of everything in the Universe:

The strong nuclear force: the force responsible for holding atomic nuclei and individual protons and neutrons together. The electromagnetic force: the force that attracts and repels charged particles, binds atoms together into molecules and life, and causes electric current, among other things. The weak nuclear force: the force responsible for some types of radioactive decay and the transmutation of heavy, unstable fundamental particles into lighter ones. And gravity: the force that bind the Earth, the Solar System and the stars and galaxies together.

Depending on how you look at it, each force has a scale and a circumstance under which it shines above all others.

Go down to the smallest scales — 10^-16 meters, or a million times smaller than an atom — and the strong nuclear force can overcome all the others. Take the helium nucleus, for example: two protons and two neutrons, bound together in a stable configuration. Even the electromagnetic repulsion between the two protons isn’t enough to overcome the glue-like strong force holding the nucleus together. Even if you take a neutron away, leaving you with two protons and just one neutron, that isotope of helium is stable as well. The strong force, at the tiniest distances, will consistently overcome all the others, and hence under many circumstances can be considered the strongest.....

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: god; physics; stringtheory
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To: laplata
Are you placing Trump and FR before God?
I’d like an answer.

Here's my answer...
I'd like a pony.

61 posted on 04/27/2016 8:36:12 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: MtnClimber

A Democrat seeking power....


62 posted on 04/27/2016 8:45:48 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Jonty30

I prefer your answer to all others my friend!!!

And it also covers the God choice since God is love.


63 posted on 04/27/2016 8:46:02 PM PDT by Bobalu (Mark Levin can improve any radio show just by not being on it)
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To: MtnClimber

Duct tape. Duh.


64 posted on 04/27/2016 8:52:30 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: freedom6178

65 posted on 04/27/2016 8:55:06 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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To: publius911

I understand.


66 posted on 04/27/2016 8:56:27 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

So was my response.....Oh, never mind.


67 posted on 04/27/2016 9:02:18 PM PDT by freedom6178
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To: MtnClimber

The Lord Jesus Christ.


68 posted on 04/27/2016 11:07:27 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: MtnClimber

That would be God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. “All things are held together by him...”


69 posted on 04/27/2016 11:29:06 PM PDT by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: MtnClimber

Ever been married? No competition.


70 posted on 04/27/2016 11:33:35 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: MtnClimber

The Love of God.....


71 posted on 04/28/2016 3:21:01 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MtnClimber

Mothers’ spit.


72 posted on 04/28/2016 3:22:26 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: GraceG

and ultimately dark energy.....Darth Vader was right all along


73 posted on 04/28/2016 3:37:36 AM PDT by xp38
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To: MtnClimber

Love.


74 posted on 04/28/2016 3:58:35 AM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: MtnClimber

Nothing comes between my ex-wife and a half-price sale.

Just sayin’.


75 posted on 04/28/2016 5:01:42 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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76 posted on 04/30/2016 7:59:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Scientists have discovered why the Universe is expanding.
It’s trying to get away from Chuck Norris.


77 posted on 04/30/2016 8:07:04 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Jonty30

Agreed! And the reason is God’s Love transcends yet imbues all where/whens of the Created Universe ... naturally.


78 posted on 04/30/2016 8:41:03 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ll bet the strongest force is the ‘weak’ force - gravity..


79 posted on 04/30/2016 12:16:34 PM PDT by GOPJ (Under Cruz every home will have a basketball ring, football net and a hockey glove- Willie Robertson)
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