{"id":177129,"date":"2023-11-30T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/what-is-the-electroweak-force"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:25:04","slug":"what-is-the-electroweak-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/what-is-the-electroweak-force","title":{"rendered":"What is the electroweak force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-the-electroweak-force2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How many fundamental forces are there in our universe? For particle physicists, answering this question can be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s the force of gravity, which keeps us from floating out of our seats. There\u2019s also the strong nuclear force, which glues the nuclei of our atoms together. Then there\u2019s the electromagnetic force, which is where we get electric currents and magnetic fields. And there\u2019s the weak nuclear force, which mediates radioactive decay.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re up to four forces, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many fundamental forces are there in our universe? For particle physicists, answering this question can be tricky. Of course, there\u2019s the force of gravity, which keeps us from floating out of our seats. There\u2019s also the strong nuclear force, which glues the nuclei of our atoms together. Then there\u2019s the electromagnetic force, which is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}