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The four fundamental forces – gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force and the strong force – govern how these particles interact.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

If gravity arises from geometry, the authors ask whether all fundamental forces might share the same origin.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

By varying the salinity of the solution and monitoring how the flakes change their distance to the substrate, it is possible to study and measure the fundamental forces at play.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

Yet the myth of him as a Promethean figure who suffered for unleashing the fundamental forces of nature onto a society unprepared to bear responsibility for it obscures the extent of his complicity.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

She knew about atoms and elementary particles, and anbaromagnetic charges and the four fundamental forces and other bits and pieces of experimental theology, but nothing about the solar system.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman