You can sip your espresso because of the elementary forces of nature
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The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time publication. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to inform you about fascinating concepts from their nook of the universe. You can join Lost in Space-Time without cost right here.
Though our world is bewildering in its range, all identified pure phenomena may be labeled into just some classes. Four of those – gravitational, electromagnetic, robust nuclear and weak nuclear – are…