Meanings
- not comparablenatural sciencesDescribing the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.
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In the next section we ignore these intermediate energy scales and the intermediate unification steps and concentrate on the main problem of the Grand Unification schemes of electroweak and strong unification: What is the probable Grand Unification mass, M, beyond which the three forces, electromagnetism, weak and strong, may manifest themselves with the same effective strength?
1979, Abdus Salam, “The Electroweak Force, Grand Unification and Superunification”, in Physica Scripta, volume 20, page 216
Origin
From electro- + weak. Coined by Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam and used informally as early as 1978, and by him in print and his Nobel Prize lecture in 1979.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French électrofaible
- électrofaiblecombination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
Italian elettrodebole
- elettrodebolecombination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
Japanese 電弱
- 電弱 (denjaku)combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
Swedish elektrosvag
- elektrosvagcombination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces
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