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By a bizarre coincidental twist, this phrase may be somewhat modified to

describe the main focus of research in mainstream physics for the last century and
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a half. The second and third parts of this phrase are “Jehovah [the Lord] Elohenu

[our God], Jehovah is one.”
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The word Elohim, as related elsewhere in this book (for example, chapter 4),
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is in Hebrew also the plural of force. This means that literally Elohenu can be
translated “our forces.” A physicist of our time could easily modify this sentence
to represent the core of physics in modern times, spanning an era from the mid-
nineteenth century up to the present:

“Hear, O dear colleagues: the forces of nature, our forces (since we investi-
gate them); they are all one.”

In what follows, we first deliver a succinct account of the main stages of the

ongoing effort, carried out by physicists for the last century and a half, to unify
all forces of nature under a single theory, hopefully described by the “theory of
everything.” Later, we will explore whether indications of a similar position, with
regard to the unity of all forces, are conveyed by the Hebrew language.
A very long time has elapsed since forces of nature were perceived as expressions
of the wills and emotions (and at times also intrigues) of the gods, who dominate
our world, and the relatively recent history when those forces have become
legitimate subjects of scientific enquiry. The science of physics has, for some cen-

turies now (at least from Newton s era of the seventeenth century), focused mainly
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on the investigation of the forces of nature. Today, there is an ongoing scientific

collaboration of physicists the world over to integrate the known forces of nature,
particularly the elusive force of gravity, into a unifying theory where all forces be

grasped as manifestations of a single unified force.

What are these forces of nature? At first, there were five distinguishable and
separate forces.
• The electric force
• The magnetic force
• The weak nuclear force
• The strong nuclear force
• Gravitation