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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There are many things than we experience as distinct forces but may not be actually if you change the reference (ex: centrifugal force is inertia) or if you go deeper into unification (ex: electrostatic force and magnetic force can be unified into electromagnetic force). But physics is about modeling reality in a convenient way for you current reference, we will never be certain to have the "real" final model independent from our observation bias.