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GRAND UNIFICATION THEORY [1 record]

Record 1 2022-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Physics
DEF

The hypothesis that superheavy monopoles ... exist and that three natural forces - electromagnetism, radioactivity and nuclear bonding - are manifestations of a single grand force.

CONT

Grand unified theories aim to describe three of the four fundamental forces observed in nature - the weak, the strong and the electromagnetic forces - as manifestations of a single unified force. (The fourth force, gravity, is not incorporated in such theories.)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física
CONT

La teoría de la gran unificación intenta unir en un único marco teórico las interacciones nuclear fuerte y nuclear débil, y la fuerza electromagnética. Esta teoría de campo unificado se halla todavía en proceso de ser comprobada.

OBS

[Según] la Ortografía académica, los nombres de las teorías científicas se escriben con minúscula: modelo estándar, teoría de la gran unificación, teoría de cuerdas, teoría de la relatividad.

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