orce self-similarity orce self-similarity Forces of matter are different dimensions of one entity: strings or superforce. This would appear to find support when comparing the relationship between the scale of matter and the behavior of forces that control that sphere. And, it would seem that under certain conditions, matter increases in size beginning with the consolidation of quarks into nuclear particles, nucleosynthesis and atoms, molecules, organisms and celestial structures – not in that order. Like a stretched rubber band – and each force representing one degree of tauntness as the band stretched from one tauntness to the next – forces would seem designed for this natural tendency in growth.
Behavior of forces self-same on each scale of matter
The strong force is confined to the nucleus as the arrows between the neutron and proton display in the picture. The electromagnetic force regulates the domain between the nucleus and electron forming the atom. And various expressions of the electromagnetic force (van der Waal's force and electrostatic forces) form molecules: the next larger size on matter's scale. Matter continues to increase in size as when gases in the early universe were pulled together to form galaxies and later stars implied in the picture above. And gravity serves the later, simple purpose of even keeping air, dust, and the smallest visualizable objects on the surface of the earth.
Max Born writes of the self-similarity of forces: "In the case of Newton's law, it is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance in a given position. If the earth were placed in an orbit half as near again to the sun as it is now, it would be linked to the sun by an energy four times as large. According to Coulomb, these same laws govern the forces of attraction and repulsion between electrically charged particles.
"As the protons and electrons are charged, it can immediately be seen that the contribution of electric forces to the binding energy must be infinitely greater for the protons – which are closely packed in the nucleus – than for the cloud of electrons, which is at a distance from the nucleus." He continues: "The diameter of the clouds of electrons, in the order of size, is about 10,000 times greater than that of the nucleus. In contrast, the energy which binds an electron to its cloud is much less (from 100,000 to a million times smaller) than the binding energy that retains a nucleon in the nucleus."
In that gravity works in the same manner as does the electromagnetic force, forces do appear self-same (with the exception of the weak force) Nature seems to display self-similarity in this important feature where acting as matter's template, form, structure, and even behavior are determined.
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