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However, the weak nuclear force is exceptionally difficult to study as it is overshadowed by the much greater effects of the strong nuclear and electromagnetic forces.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

Mathematical symmetries within the standard model suggest the weak and electromagnetic forces are different aspects of a single “electroweak” force.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2024

Or up the wood ladder of a half-century-old structure, built to plans specified by visitors from Venus, where electromagnetic forces will rejuvenate your cells.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2022

The muon—which basically nobody understands even today—was like a heavy electron, interacting mainly through electromagnetic forces.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2019

Eventually there would be what is called a phase transition and the symmetry between the forces would be broken: the strong force would become different from the weak and electromagnetic forces.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking