The Four Fundamental Forces of the Universe

The Four Fundamental Forces The familiar force of gravity pulls you down into your seat, toward the Earth’s center. You feel it as your weight. Why don’t you fall through your seat? Another force, electromagnetism, holds the atoms of your seat together, preventing your atoms from intruding on those of your seat. The remaining two forces work at the atomic level, which we never directly feel, despite our being made of atoms.

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