What are the effects of the nuclear forces on
space-time? In other words, I know that enough
gravity effects time dilation, and probably a
strong enough electromagnetic field would do the
same, but what about the stronger forces, gravity
is the weakest of all of the forces, but what
would a stronger force (the nuclear forces) do?
Would you need "less" amount of nuclear force to
do the same time dilation as an electromagnetic
field would do? How could I calculate that?
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Answer 1:
Plenty of people are devoting their entire
careers to constructing a theory that could
encompass both gravity and the other fundamental
forces (the electromagnetic, and the strong and
weak nuclear forces). While "string theory" may
eventually provide the solution for this problem,
as of now, there is no straightforward answer or
simple equation that combines all the forces. But
to answer your question, there really is no direct
connection between time dilation and the strong
force. Let's look a little more carefully why
this is.Time dilation is caused by gravity, which
is responsible for the curvature of space. For
large, massive objects, like planets or galaxies,
the significant warping of space can cause time to
slow down. However, at the scale of the nucleus
(~10-15 meters) where the strong interaction is
felt, space is not at all like that. Instead,
space is very rough and non-uniform. It does not
make sense to think about curving space when
talking about such small length scales, so there
would not be any time-dilation as we normally
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