Sentences with electromagnetism
- The sense of achievement and closure for theoretical physics that came with the brilliant success of the classical field theory of electromagnetism was short lived.
- If the laws of electromagnetism and nuclear physics were only slightly different, chemistry and biology would be impossible.
- For the remainder of his life he sought without success a unified field theory embracing electromagnetism, gravitation, and quantum mechanics.
- It should be able to predict the masses of the most elementary particles of Nature, tell us the relative strengths of the forces of gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong interactions, and much else besides.
- For those of you not up to speed with your physics, the grand unification theory is the idea that the four forces of nature - the weak and strong nuclear forces, electromagnetism and gravity - can all be explained by a single theory.
- Until the 1940's, similar problems appeared when physicists attempted to reconcile electromagnetism and quantum mechanics.
- Einstein's special theory of relativity, which makes classical mechanics consistent with classical electromagnetism, treats time like a coordinate in a unified spacetime geometry.