Sentences with phrase «describe electromagnetism»
Moffat argues that the mathematics Einstein hoped would describe electromagnetism in his unified field theory instead gives rise to a slight repulsive force that reduces the strength of gravity.
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The remaining ones — electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces — merely describe how objects move through space.
It describes all known particles, as well as three of the four forces that act on them: electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces.
He was attempting to unite the force of gravity — which he had successfully described in his general theory of relativity — with the force of electromagnetism, and the two forces are similar in many ways.
Just as Einstein had introduced a fourth dimension into his equations of general relativity to describe gravity, Kaluza and Klein suggested that a fifth dimension was needed to incorporate electromagnetism.
These forces are electromagnetism, which describes how charged objects feel each other's influence: the weak force, which explains how particles can change their identities, and the strong force, which describes how quarks stick together to form protons and other composite particles.
The existence of the Higgs boson goes a long way towards confirming the Standard Model of particle physics, which accurately describes three of the four known forces of nature: electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force.