What four forces define the universe?
Man from his very beginning realized that there are four fundamental elements in the universe. They are fire, water, air, and earth, which mankind thought defined all things in the physical, just as the four points of the compass (North, South, East, West) defined position and direction in the earth plane. Modern science has discovered that there are also four forces in operation within the universe; gravity, electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. According to Nick Herbert s book Quantum Reality, scientists believed that these four forces cause and explain all things within the universe (p. 32). All of these forces have force fields that influence matter and whose strength decreases as distance increases. For example, magnets are able to attract iron screws by their magnetic fields if the iron is sufficiently close to the magnet. Now the last three forces electromagnetic, strong and weak forces originate within the atom. Electromagnetic forces cause the following energies to exist.
