Friday, September 21, 2012

The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Theoretical Physics

Gravity is literally forty orders of magnitude weaker than all the other known forces in the Universe. (That means the gravitational force is a factor of 1040 weaker than the other three forces. Or -- and I’ll write it out just this once -- we’d need to increase its strength by 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in order to have it be comparable to the other known forces.)

MORE: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/09/19/the-greatest-unsolved-problem-in-theoretical-physics/

See also...

Experiment Corrects Prediction in Quantum Theory
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120919135312.htm