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According to our present understanding of elementary particle physics four fundamental forces are responsible for the appearance of the physical world: electromagnetic, strong, weak, and gravitational force. These four interactions exhibit a remarkable hierarchical pattern.
“... the best reason for believing in a renormalizable gauge theory of the weak and electromagnetic interactions is that it fits our preconceptions of what a fundamental field theory should be like.”
S. Weinberg
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Börner, G. (2003). Gauge Theories and the Standard Model. In: The Early Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05267-9_5
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