GD References

Drawing the letter “S”

A very unoptimal way of packing 3 boxes in a square

This is the equation of the universe—the closest we’ve come to a theory of everything. It’s called the Standard Model. While it is meant to describe all behavior in the universe, it is missing a piece. This is the summarized version. The Standard Model describes all 12 elementary particles—the building blocks of all matter—and explains how forces move them. There are four fundamental forces: gravity, which you know; electromagnetism, which gives us technology; the strong nuclear force, the strongest of the four; and the weak nuclear force. What’s interesting is that the Standard Model includes only three of these forces. Gravity is not part of the equation because, first, we do not fully understand it, and second, it is extremely weak at the particle level. Gravity has little, if any, effect on elementary particles. The problem is that the Standard Model works remarkably well, yet it is clearly incomplete—because we know gravity exists. It’s all very strange.

Drawing the letter “S”