John Carlos Baez on Twitter: "Steven Weinberg died! For all the talk of unification, there are few examples. Newton unified terrestrial and celestial gravity - apples and planets. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism. Weinberg, Glashow and Salam unified electromagnetism and the weak force. (1/n)… https://t.co/uc4tB69Jws"

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Steven Weinberg died! For all the talk of unification, there are few examples. Newton unified terrestrial and celestial gravity - apples and planets. Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism. Weinberg, Glashow and Salam unified electromagnetism and the weak force. (1/n)pic.twitter.com/LHHwkMyRyi

His "unification" of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces is curious, since it starts with two other kinds of force and uses another particle, now called the Higgs boson, to split them a different way, into the forces we now see... while giving particles mass! (2/n)

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