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The polite shove that built galaxies and breaks fingers, depending on its mood.

means A push or pull that changes the motion, shape, or will of something — whether physical power applied to an object or coercion applied to a person.

from From Latin 'fortis,' meaning strong, which fed into the Vulgar Latin noun 'fortia' (strength) and arrived in English via Old French 'force' in the medieval period. The same sturdy root branches into 'fort,' 'fortify,' and 'effort' — all of them leaning on that core idea of being strong enough to make something happen.

newton's law
Equals mass times acceleration, no negotiation
four flavors
Gravity, electromagnetism, and two nuclear ones
unit
Measured in newtons, naturally
weakest one
Gravity, yet it rules the cosmos
action pairs
Every push answered by an equal shove
for instance

operation desert storm — coalition forces used 2.8 million tons of ordnance against iraq in 1991

gravitational force — earth's gravitational force keeps the moon in orbit at 384,400 km distance

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