• Question: What is the weirdest force you have discovered?

    Asked by Jess to Steven, Connor on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 16 Jun 2015:


      There are only four fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) and they were all discovered before I was born, so I haven’t actually discovered any new forces!

      The weirdest thing I’ve discovered, though, is probably how the electromagnetic force behaves in a really cold liquid called a superfluid – in my current research, I think I’ve found this force does something no one’s spotted before, which is exciting.

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