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At low energies, could there be more fundamental forces?
At high energies, some of the fundamental forces merge into one. For example the electromagnetic force and the weak force merge into the electroweak.
Is it possible that their are yet unknown fundamental forces, which merge into the known ones above the lowest energies we've ever been able to achieve? Would there be any hints of that above that energy, for example some anomalies in the known forces, or do they act totally consistently right until they split?
Even at a billionth of a degree, there's significant energy in the ground state of the atoms, which is not counted toward the temperature. Does that energy get factored when we talk about the "energy" at which fundamental forces merge?
It would be possible to get to lower energies with non-atomic matter (e.g. super-cold fully-ionized plasma, neutron gas). Maybe they exist naturally in deep space. If other fundamental forces exist in deep space, only far from hot stars, it could explain dark matter and energy. They could be normal matter producing different forces.
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- Life ExperienceLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
well, scientists have managed to drop temperatures to less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero without finding such an effect, but I suppose anything is possible.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Interesting concept, this could be one of the reasons the quantum world behaves so strangely, also it would present a reason for why quantum theory cannot explain gravity, gravity could be a combination of two of these low energy fundamental forces. I'll definitely be watching this question. Sorry i did not give a straightforward answer however I doubt one exists, we have only just discovered the Higgs Boson I'd estimate we're still quiet far away from finding what forces exactly govern them. However on the other hand there might be theoretical proof of these forces. Simply, i'm very intrigued.
