What truly holds everything together, magnetism or gravity?

Question

atoms are held together by magnitism.
mass is held together by gravity.
so wich ultimately holds everything together.

I was under the impresion that the electrons in an atom being a negitive charge were held in orbit around the nucleous of the atom being nuetrons and protons, protons being a positve charge. Is that not magnitism ?

Answer 1

We need all four of the fundamental forces to hold everything together, working together. Strong and weak nuclear forces, magnetism, and gravity. The first two primarily deal with atoms, magnetism is also involved in atoms but is more of a macroscopic effect, and gravity holds all the masses together.

So, no one thing keeps it all together, but team work.

Answer 2

Yes, protons and electrons are charged, but since they are charged, why doesn't the electron sit right next to the proton instead of orbiting? Why can the protons be so close in the nucleus when they should be repelling each other? At the atomic level, strong and weak forces dominate. They are MUCH stronger than electromagnetism or gravity, but only over VERY small distances - which is why they have no influence over the macroscopic world (i.e, us).

Gravity is actually the weakest force in nature.

Answer 3

>>I was under the impresion that the electrons in an atom being a negitive charge were held in orbit around the nucleous of the atom being nuetrons and protons, protons being a positve charge. Is that not magnitism ?

No, that's electricity.

Answer 4

You probably mean electromagnetism. If the choice is limited to only gravity and electromagnetism the answer is electromagnetism. The magnetism in a cheap little toy magnet is greater then the whole gravimetric pull of the earth and you show this every time you use a magnet to lift something. (If the magnet can not lift it that does not mean that this time the gravity was stronger, it means the magnet can not overcome the objects inertia.)

What really holds everything together is the balance of the 4 main forces, the 2 above and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

Answer 5

Interesting question..! First you can toss out magnetism since its binding ability applies only to things that can interact with it (..it doesn't hold atoms together..) Gravity contributes significantly in holding things together, but I'm going to vote for the *strong and weak nuclear forces* that keeps atoms intact. Without atoms there would be no structured mass, just a universe filled with aimlessly drifting subatomic particles.

Answer 6

depends on what you mean..... if you are talking about what holds the chair you're sitting on and the desk you are at together then it's the strong and weak nuclear force. Without that everything would just be a mess of quarks. Gravity is relatively weak compared to those but gets to act over a much larger distance, so they kinda need each other. Gravity brings quarks close together, the weak and strong forces bind them.

Answer 7

Atoms are not held together by magnetism. They are held together by the strong and weak nuclear forces.

You really need all four forces (strong and weak nclear forces, electromagnetic forces, and gravity) to hold everything together.

Doug

Answer 8

Dark Matter and Dark Energy are new energies founded this year and play a major role in keeping the universe in place.

Answer 9

magnetism does not hold atoms together. the strong and weak forces (that's what they're called, the "strong" and "weak forces) hold microscopic particles together. gravity holds macroscopic particles together. the strong and weak forces are much stronger than gravity.

Answer 10

gravity fuses the univers together in orbits and such.