4 fundamental forces

Shouldn’t gravity be like a tiny, vaguely dragon-shaped worm off in another field?
I mean messing with the strong force in a fistful of atoms gets you a nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, my old, achy self can jump up and resist against a whole earth’s worth of gravitational force.
- Au contraire, mon frere. "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-removed in space."
  if you have enough mass moving quickly enough, someone's gonna have a real bad day. Gravity is fantastic for getting a lot of mass moving very quickly, it's why space missions slingshot around planets to get from A to B instead of burning propellant straight there. Even dropping tungsten rods from orbit can get you atom-bomb-sized explosions, and if you had any means of (even weakly) accelerating them before that, gravity would help further accelerate them.
  That, and have you seen the amount of propellant required to overcome gravity? Compare that to the amount of fissile material you need to make a viable nuclear device. It's peanuts. A (small) nuke might as well be a rounding error compared to the amount of fuel you need to overcome gravity and leave earths orbit, gravity is that much of a fuck.
  
  That, and have you seen the amount of propellant required to overcome gravity? Compare that to the amount of fissile material you need to make a viable nuclear device. It's peanuts.
  You inadvertently argued against your point. It takes only a few kilograms of fissile material to generate the energy needed to escape the gravitation of the 6 billion trillion kilograms gravity of earth.
  But not really because you only compared chemical energy to fission.
  
  I was more just speaking to how it’s many orders of magnitude weaker than the other 3 forces. Though it does work on an infinite scale, so maybe it ought to be a tiny but unbelievably long vaguely dragon-shaped worm thing.
  
  Upvoted for Mass Effect, my beloved.
- I love that we're this far along in physics and the question of "what even is gravity anyway?" Is still fundamentally unsolved.
  My favourite theory that I've seen so far is "entropy increases, and black holes have maximum entropy of anything in the universe, so everything is always trying to become a black hole." Stuff falls downward just because that's the easiest and most immediate way of making progress towards being a black hole.
  Obviously, this is a layman's understanding.
  
  The weak interaction is just electromagnetism if the photons had mass and charge (and broke CP and flavour simmetry, yeah). Above the unification scale they are literally the same field.
  Plus, what really makes a theory hard is how hard it is to compute a prediction. There electroweak group is renormalizable. For the strong force you need to do weird lattice calculations.
  I maintain that the strong force should be the derpy one.
  
  What is CP?
  
  Yup got it. In that context mega-dragon makes sense. I can’t wait until we actually understand what the hell gravity even is.
  
  Some physicists have suggested combining the EM and weak forces because of the interplay between them.
- While that is true, for how long can you resist gravity? Gravity is the endurance hunter of the fundamental forces. Sure, you can lift your arm and resist the entire earth's gravity. But for how long, before you succumb to gravity's irresistible pull?
  
  resisting gravity is super easy, as evidenced by the fact that most things aren't black holes.
  
  Perhaps the gravity head should be a snail then
- You didn't really overcome it though. After 2 seconds you got pulled right back.
  
  Yup. But try pulling a proton out of an atom for 2 seconds.
- idk, man. that gravitational sigularity over there would like to have a word with you.
- Close up off monstrous, horrifying, dangerous gravity dragon... pull back and back and back, and realize it was 1000x magnified. It's magnificent roar a barely audible squeak.
  
  And then you look away from it for a couple billion years and it combined with with all of its friends into the devourer of worlds

Gravity should be the derpy looking one.
- Yeah, definitely. Don't know why the literal weakest force in the universe is depicted as some mega dragon.
  
  maybe it is because being so weak, it allows things to be come together, and eventually be strong enough, by power of family.
  
  Gravity bends the geometry of spacetime itself, it's pretty eldritch to me.
- The strong force has colored charges and increases with the distance, how is it not the derpy one?
  The weak interaction is just electromagnetism if the photons had mass (and broke CP and flavour simmetry, yeah).

Are you kidding? The strong force depends on colours and increases with the distance, how is it not the derpy one?
The weak interaction is just electromagnetism if the photons had mass (and broke CP and flavour simmetry, yeah).
- Look man, the more I hear this argument the more I want to get into a Ph D program to figure out a better way to describe how fucking weird the Strong force is.
  Sure, it "increases with distance" but the amount of energy you put in separating two particles bound by the strong force increases the probability of creating a new particle from the vacuum and then that distance snaps instantly. It has a practical limit if it is within the bounds of spacetime.
  Edit: sorry I hit save before I finished
  So not only is it special strong, if we define it with the only known things we can define anything with, it breaks all sorts of other things. And since the entire universe isn't bound together into one tight strongly held particle possibly means that the only reason the universe exists at all is because defining the strong force forced particles out of nothing.
  
  Please do! Us physics enthusiasts laymen need ANSWERS ! :D
- Color is just a word for a quantum property, not actual color.
- I mean, increasing with distance isn't that bad, since it only increases upto a point and goes out of range.
  I like that its analogous with springs and all, which also increases force with distance from mean position
- What do you mean by color?
  
  "Colour charge", which has nothing to do with colors though. Its like electric charge but instead of two opposite(called posotive and negative), it hace three "colours" which obeys R+G+B=colourless(white) just lije positive+negative equal zero

It's a matter of scale, but gravity is often considered the weakest force. In quantum physics, it's so weak it's often impossible to measure.
- Weakest force but with the longest range right?

The weak force is super cool actually

I don't know about Gravity being the derpy one, but it sure is the most annoying AF. Stuff keeps falling off the nightlamp when I reach for it, or I have to retrieve something moderately heavy from the back of the top shelf and it ends being a hazard to health.
Nah... F#*k gravity.
- Planet is negatively charged. That's how lightning and spiders work.
  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/