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Name: Lance
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Electromagnetism can attract and repel because it has two charges. Gravity is only known to have one charge: mass. But if negative matter or negative mass exists, them you would know that gravity can attract and repel just like the electromagnetic force. Would the discovery of hypothetical negative matter help us unify electromagnetism and gravity?

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Lance -

Seems logical.

But it might be that there is not just one force.... perhaps two unrelated forces... EM and gravity.

One other problem. If all matter that we now know is positive matter, why does each mass not repel each other mass? If each body carried a like electrical charge that would be true. Instead, all mass attracts all other mass.

Larry


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