A grave situation
\nby cricketjeff on October 7, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nAll the forces we’ve discovered seem to be almost the same;
\nBut there’s one that wrecks the picture, can you guess which is to blame?
\nWhen you heat up any matter the first four put on a show
\nBut gravity sucks you know!<\/p>\n
Faraday played with a magnet – making electricity
\nAnd the weak and strong can join them – seems to be simplicity
\nBut the other force of nature is too weak, it has to go!
\nFor gravity sucks you know!<\/p>\n
If you do some calculations, and you know your QCD,
\nYou can make your quarks stay bounded, single ones just can’t be free,
\nBut although we search for bosons and accelerators grow;
\nStill gravity sucks you know.<\/p>\n
Are there seven new dimensions so it’s power ebbs away,
\nAs the fans of superstringing always passionately say?
\nOr is it simply that there’s some things that the clever sods don’t know,
\nAs gravity seems to show?<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nThere are, we are told, four fundamental forces in nature, \u00d8rsted, Faraday and
\nMaxwell showed that electricity and magnetism were fundamentally connected,
\nGlashow, Weinberg, and Salam showed that the “weak nuclear force”, the force
\nthat breaks atoms in radioactive decay, was another related force, and Quantum
\nColour Dynamics is a theory that seems to let the “strong nuclear force” join
\nin the game, that’s the force that holds quarks in place in protons and
\nneutrons.<\/p>\n
Nobody has found a way to make gravity fit. Einstein’s theories of relativity
\nfit the facts extremely well but they are not in tune with the quantum
\nmechanical model that explains almost everything else. Superstring theory is
\nthe leading contender for joining it all up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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