Why did the universe converge itself so that there were four fundamental forces of nature and not 3- or 5+? what was the deciding factor?
Why did the universe converge itself so that there were four fundamental forces of nature and not 3- or 5+...
Jeremiah Jackson
Christopher Allen
If there are only 4 fundamental forces. Anyway you ask this question though, I think it will be unanswerable. Why does blue appear as it does? Why was there x amount of energy at the beginning?
Jackson Sanchez
well we know blue appears the way it does because of our eyes and the way our brain maps out the perception of the light they collect on the cone thingamajig.
how do you know if something is unanswerable or just not having an answer because we haven't improved our model of the expansion of the universe?
Josiah Sullivan
There's only 3 forces.
EM and WNF are combined to Electroweak
Anyways, it is presumed that during the big bang, the fields were actually unified as 1 super force, and asymmetry during the big bang caused them to split.
Cooper Hughes
If you postulate that there are an infinite number of universes and an infinite number of variations in universal forces in each of these then it is purely coincidental.
Our universe has these fundamental forces because it is the only combination in which we are able to exist and observe this combination.
Levi Adams
>implying this literally answers anything
Landon Foster
>only 3
>no strong
>no gravity
>calls electroweak a force
it's a model that derives the weak and em forces. they're still separate forces unless you're from the past.
Joseph Richardson
? Is there a theory which explains why the gauge groups of the standard model are as they are, why observed spacetime has 3 spatial dimensions and 1 temporal dimension, and why all laws of physics are as they are? Do "fundamental physical constants" vary over time? Are any of the particles in the standard model of particle physics actually composite particles too tightly bound to observe as such at current experimental energies? Are there fundamental particles that have not yet been observed, and, if so, which ones are they and what are their properties? Are there unobserved fundamental forces implied by a theory that explains other unsolved problems in physics?
Easton Williams
>they're still separate forces unless you're from the past.
Or if you're at a high enough energy.
Jeremiah Long
The question was why 4.
My answer was that there may only be 4 in this universe and not others. If anything can happen in infinity then anything and everything will happen.
It's not a question of why if this is the case but how.