One of the most exciting ideas in modern physics is that gravity is not a traditional force, like electromagnetic or nuclear forces.

现代物理学最令人兴奋的观点之一是重力不是像电磁力和核力一样是传统力。

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The theory’s vindication would come only with a glimpse of W and Z bosons—particles which, it posited, carried the weak force, just as photons carried the electromagnetic one.

因为，这个理论的最终证实， 惟赖人们一瞥玻色子W和Z的真容——该理论推断这两种粒子携带弱相互作用力，就像光子携带有电磁力一样。

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Fundamental constants such as the strength of the electromagnetic force - the so-called fine-structure constant, or alpha - get their name from the fact that they are supposedly the same everywhere.

宇宙基本常数，比如电磁力强度之类的精细结构常数，符号位“ alpha ”，它们因为被假定为不变量而得名。

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Equally importantly, the Higgs allows two of the four forces in nature -- the electromagnetic force and the weak force, which is responsible for most nuclear reactions -- to be unified and described by mathematics of the same type that describe the other two known forces, the so-called strong force and gravity.

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