What is the strongest force in the Universe?
The answer depends on what scales you’re looking at.
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5 min readMay 4, 2016
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.” -Swami Vivekananda
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.