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You put everything in a way that someone with high school physics can mostly understand the issue. Would it be possible for you (or anyone else) to explain what

• zinclozenge 8y ago
  It's probably helpful to think of this as phase transitions. At the plank scale "temperature" everything is mixed together, but when the system cools and undergoes a phase transition we start seeing different behavior. Sounds possibly like an invalid analogy, but in fact there's substantial overlap in the theories. If you want to read more try reading wikipedia articles on "ising model", "spontaneous symmetry breaking", "higgs mechanism".
• frutiger 8y ago
  It turns out that seemingly distinct forces are related in some clever way. The most approachable example of this (though it doesn't quite extend to the other unifications listed above) is electricity and magnetism. Before Faraday's experiments, we understood static electricity (charged objects attract/repel charged objects of the opposite/like sign, proportionally to the product of the charge, and falling off with the square of the distance), and magnetism (magnetic poles repel). Once we saw that moving electric charges generate magnetic fields and vice versa, we opened the door to realizing that these are both just aspects of the same electromagnetic field.
  • fxfan 8y ago
    Thank you! That's probably the simplest possible explanation. "Related like electricity and magnetism are". How far is it from the "actual reality"? Would you (or anybody else) try giving a more difficult explanation?