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We used to think that electricity and magnetism were different types of interaction, but it turns out that they are more coherently described as a single “elect
by klodolph 5y ago
We used to think that electricity and magnetism were different types of interaction, but it turns out that they are more coherently described as a single “electromagnetic” force.
The same may be true of other seemingly different forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Theory
- at_a_remove 5y agoThis is a true statement, but it does not disprove anything I said. Before, we thought there were two. Now we know there are one. We do not say "one and a half."
- jakeinspace 5y agoSure, there might be 1 equation for 1 force. But that is a very different thing from a "spectrum" of forces.