Sentences with phrase «unifying electromagnetism»

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

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But Salam, a practicing Muslim and one of the physicists to mathematically unify two of the fundamental forces of nature — electromagnetism and the weak force, which governs radioactivity — identified with Polkinghorne's quest.

James Clerk Maxwell combined electricity, magnetism and light into a single theory of electromagnetism; a century later physicists added the weak nuclear force to form a unified «electroweak» theory.

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.

In the 1930s, when Einstein began his work on a unified field theory, physicists believed that there were only two universal forces that the theory would have to unite: gravity and electromagnetism.

When Albert Einstein died in 1955, he had spent decades on a lonely, quixotic quest: to derive a theory of everything that would unify gravity and electromagnetism — even though physicists discovered new nuclear forces as he worked.

Lurking behind that dispute was the deeper issue of whether gravity could be unified with electromagnetism (Maxwell thought not), a question that remains one of the greatest in science today, in a somewhat more complicated form.

What they have been trying to construct is a unified theory of the four forces — gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

Back in the 19th century, James Clerk Maxwell took the first big step toward a unified theory, by linking electricity and magnetism with his famous electromagnetism laws.

Electricity and magnetism were unified in the theory of electromagnetism.

The discovery of neutral currents helped unify two of the fundamental interactions of nature (electromagnetism and the weak force) as the electroweak force.