Gravity May Play a Tiny But Important Role in The Microworld of Particle Physics
Launch yourself from a great enough height and it won't take long to see which would win in a battle between gravity and the forces that bind solid ground.
Gravity's relative weakness, at least compared to the strength of electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, appears to limits its power to phenomena on the vast scales of planets and galaxies.
For this reason, together with the challenge of marrying general relativity with quantum physics, physicists tend to hand-wave gravity's role in the formation of particles by fudging it with a rather arbitrary correction factor.
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Launch yourself from a great enough height and it won't take long to see which would win in a battle between gravity and the forces that bind solid ground.
Gravity's relative weakness, at least compared to the strength of electromagnetism and the nuclear forces, appears to limits its power to phenomena on the vast scales of planets and galaxies.
For this reason, together with the challenge of marrying general relativity with quantum physics, physicists tend to hand-wave gravity's role in the formation of particles by fudging it with a rather arbitrary correction factor.
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