Roman Krznaric, author of Empathy, a Handbook for Revolution, says: "There has been an extraordinary shift … a concept that has been buried in psychology textbooks for nearly a century – empathy – is coming to be seen as one of the fundamental forces for tackling global challenges".
Historically, the dream of flying and the use of the strange phenomena "electricity" were the two fundamental forces for the foundation of what we call today bionics or biomimetics.
According to one school of thought, it could have provided support for a fifth fundamental force of nature known as "technicolour".
Theoretical physicists at UC Irvine say they've found evidence for a fifth fundamental force of nature, carried by a particle that until now has gone totally unnoticed.
They pass through us all the time, from sources across the universe, but because gravity is so much weaker than the other fundamental forces of nature electromagnetism, for instance, or the interactions that bind an atom together we never sense them.
The Higgs is the missing piece in the Standard Model, a 40-year-old mathematical framework that links all the known particles and all of the fundamental forces of nature except for gravity.
But they may also be radically dark, meaning that in the case of dark energy its structure could bear no resemblance to atoms, molecules, and the four fundamental forces of nature, except for gravity or actually its opposite.
Leslie suggests that this story supports the multiple universe explanation for the fact that the values of the fundamental forces of the universe appear fine-tuned for life.
A major constraint on the investigation of the fundamental forces of nature was the requirement for ever-larger and more-expensive particle accelerators such as CERN's multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider, which was nearing completion for a 2008 startup.
