A Unified View of the Basic Forces

TL;DR

This paper proposes a unifying framework for fundamental forces, identifying Einstein gravity as the universal force sharing properties of linkage and long range, and suggests implications for potential new forces and dualities.

Contribution

It introduces a unified perspective on fundamental forces, characterizing Einstein gravity as the universal force and deriving conditions for other forces and dualities.

Findings

Einstein gravity is identified as the universal force.

Other forces arise by relaxing certain properties.

Predictions include possible new short-range forces and duality relations.

Abstract

In this essay we wish to seek a unifying thread between the basic forces. We propose that there exists a universal force which is shared by all that physically exists. Universality is characterized by the two properties: (i) universal linkage and (ii) long range. They uniquely identify Einstein gravity as the unversal force. All other forces then arise as these properties are peeled off. For instance, relaxing (i) but retaining (ii) will lead to Maxwell electromagnetic force. This unified outlook makes interesting suggestions and predictions: if there exists a new force, it can only be a short range non-abelian vector or a scalar field, and there should exist in an appropriate space duality relations between weak and electric, and between strong and gravity.