Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Electricity and Gravity

There are four fundamental forces known to man. Gravity, Electricity, Nuclear Strong, and Nuclear Weak. The last two were found less than one and a half centuries ago. They have short range and one has to go to extra steps to measure them. Gravity has an infinite range, like electricity. That means that at twice the distance they are one quarter times less intense. The other two forces weaken much more at twice the distance. Newton set the stage for the theory for the first, and Maxwell for the second. Both were theoretical physicists, one from England the other from Scotland. As Europeans sometimes say, all Asians look the same to me. I as a Mexican see all those people from the British Isles, as a single bunch, but then again I have never ever been to Scotland. I expect they will be very happy to tell me that Maxwell was Scottish, not English.

To this day there are mysteries for both forces. For instance, electricity seems to emanate from source points, too small to see. Gravity emanates from everything. Electricity charges can be positive or negative. Gravity charges are all of the same type. Electric charges of the same type repel, gravity charges of the same type attract. Finally gravity is so much weaker than electricity, that you won't even know the name of the number if I write it here. Here it is.

0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001

What is going on? who ordered this strange world?

That is all for today. Why is this relevant? If you have ever fallen in love, I would not blame the nuclear forces, it is more likely that the answer to your questions about love are in the long ranged forces.

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