It's easier to fantasize about civilization collapsing than to put in the hard work to build and maintain community cohesion, and as you're busy fantasizing the collapse, you're not meeting people with different opinions and broadening your horizons.
Exactly; I rather enjoy telling those who would have me leave my home that they should set the example first. After all, they're the ones pushing for changes they want to see, they can go do that over somewhere else.
For nuclear forces it's actually the strong force binding the nucleus (electromagnetic force is far, far, far too weak to do this) but you can theoretically unify the weak force and the electromagnetic force into the electroweak force : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroweak_interaction
That's kind of the point of software archeology, isn't it? Sometimes something so evident to people within the first few hundred years becomes opaque in reasoning later on, and what's 5 months anyway? You'd need a Rosetta stone to be sure you were even off in time, otherwise you just might have a few missing months that historians couldn't account for.
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