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I think what they are trying to say is that almost everything that happens in everyday experience is the result of the residual electromagnetic interactions bet
by fhars 7y ago
I think what they are trying to say is that almost everything that happens in everyday experience is the result of the residual electromagnetic interactions between the outer electrons of the electrically neutral atoms that make up the world. (Apart from some almost but not quite negligible gravitational interaction that keeps the earth in an orbit around the sun and things like that.)
- tsimionescu 7y agoGravity is a major part of the human experience, at least for all humans that live close enough to a celestial body to be forced with their feet to the ground. One look at how astronauts live in space will show you that there is more to the regular human experience than electromagnetism.
- dTal 7y agoGravity towards the Earth specifically, yes. Gravity between objects in daily life is completely negligible. And I would say that astronauts in space live quite normally, compared to how they would fare without electromagnetic interactions!
- tsimionescu 7y agoIt would be pretty interesting to imagine what daily life would look like with only the strong and weak forces, true.
- mirimir 7y agoGreg Egan gets into that in at least one of his novels, Diaspora.