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3.7 Unification of natural forces

According to the imaginations of the elementary particles physicists, all natural forces were, at the Planck time, combined in a single force. A mathematical model for the unification of all known natural forces (electromagnetic, weak, strong and gravitational interaction) is believed to be found by means of the Super string theory  [24], p. 220:
„The Super string theory leads us back to the origin of time, when all cosmic forces were completely symmetrical and presented one primary super force.“
According to the Super string theory, the first symmetry fractioning separating the gravitation as the first force from the remaining natural forces, took place at the Planck time, when the universe was about  10 -43 seconds old.
By later symmetry fractionings, the other natural forces then also became independent ( see Fig. 6 below)

Fig. 6: "Freezing“ of the natural forces by symmetry fractioning

In 1968,  the theorists Weinberg, Salom and Glashow could achieve the unification of  the electromagnetic and the weak force into the electroweak force, on the basis of a calibration symmetry- the Yang- Mills- theory. Since then, no major progress could be made. In 1984 only, the unification of all natural forces gained new impetus by a Super string model introduced by Green and Schwarz which featured enough symmetry to exclude certain anomalies of earlier string theories. But even with this, the breakthrough could not be achieved.
[25], p. 225: “One knows now that there are thousands of string theories which mathematically are just as consistent as the two Green- Schwarz theories."
Which string theory and if one of them at all is capable to serve as a model for descibing the real world, we do not know until today. Thus, the unification of all natural forces furtheron belongs to the big unsolved riddles in theoretical physics.
From the CTH now follow some interesting relations between the strong nuclear force and the gravitation force, which could be of fundamental importance for the unification of all natural forces.
 
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