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Do the other 3 fundamental forces also warp space-time?
I got this idea from Einstein's insight using the falling elevator. He says, that Gravity really cannot be distinguished from any other force accelerating the elevator.
A bunch of questions on here (...
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A wind tunnel and 2 strong magnets in the wind tunnel creating a very strong field, how would the wind & magnetic force interact?
Sorry if I get some terminologies wrong I am not a physics major :)
If I had a big wind tunnel on earth blowing wind through a strong magnetic field (so the opposite poles of 2 giant magnets creating ...
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If contact forces are repulsive then how are we able to pull stuff? [closed]
I searched a lot on internet(especially physics stackexchange) about the nature of contact forces. I came to know through most of them that it is repulsive in nature which surely means that your hand ...
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If gravity were a "real" force, then how would I be able to tell if I'm falling or accelerating in space or on Earth?
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I think it would be helpful for laypersons like myself to understand how, in practice, a "real" force differs from a pseudo-force. Virtually all explanations (eg, on this stack, ...
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How do gravitons and photons interact?
First of all, I am a noob in physics (I‘m a computer scientist) and started reading Hawking‘s „A brief history of time“. In Chapter 6 he says that “electromagnetic force [...] interacts with ...
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Why is there not a General Relativity for forces other than gravity?
I think what I'm looking for here is some sort of a bridge between the very material terms and mental images that I have access to and more of a pure math understanding. My deepest exposure to ...
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How can one fundamental force be stronger than another?
This doesn't seem to make any sense. Gravity depends on mass or spacetime curvature but the electromagnetic force depends on electric charge. For any particular particle we could say that the force of ...
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Why is gravity so special?
I am not a physicist but still I love the subject very much. A thought recently popped up in my mind while studying and I'm still confused about it.
"If a person falls freely he will not feel ...
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Does the static gravitational field move with the source instantly?
I have read this question:
How fast does gravity propagate?
where hawkeye says:
So what does that mean? It means that the "speed of gravity" is the speed of light … technically. Changes in ...
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How is the electromagnetic/gravitational force transmitted? [duplicate]
So I was thinking about how a positive and a negative charge (or positive/positive, negative/negative) interact. I have read previously about how photons carry the electromagnetic force. However, how ...
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Electric force much stronger than gravitational force? [duplicate]
It is commonly said that the electric force is much stronger than the gravitational force. Indeed, Coulomb's constant $k_e$ is much larger than the gravitational constant $G$ but they are measured in ...
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How can we compare the ratio of strenghts fundamental forces? [duplicate]
I have read in many books that the ratio of strengths of gravitational force, electromagnetic force, nuclear force is 1:10^36:10^38 (one: 10 raised to thirty six: 10 raised to thirty eight). On what ...
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What could happen if each of the four fundamental forces became stronger or weaker? [closed]
Theoretically, what could happen if:
Strong interaction
Weak interaction
Gravitation
Electromagnetism
Became stronger or weaker?
What would be the observable effects for each, separately?
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How exactly are the relative strengths of gravity and electromagnetism quantified? [duplicate]
I've often heard it said that gravity is much weaker than electromagnetism, and after looking at several questions on SE, I feel that I've got at least a qualitative handle on the concept -- gravity ...
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Why do we talk of the "weakness of gravity" rather than "the surprising charge to mass ratio of particles"?
The relative strength of gravity and electromagnetic forces is obvious — stand on a sheet of paper, and even with the whole of Earth pulling, your motion is stopped by the electric fields inside that ...
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