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According to current physics, the set of the universe comprises 4 matter elementary particles: the quark, the antiquark, the electron and its complement, the neutrino.

This unit is controlled by 4 fundamental Forces known as also Interactions: the electromagnetic Force, the gravitational Force, the strong Force, the weak Force. The existence of one 5th Force remains hypothetical.

Each one of these forces has the vector which transmits it, most known is that of electromagnetism: the photon. That of the 5th Force would be the Boson of Higgs, currently sought by the new accelerator, LHC, of Geneva.

The Boson of Higgs is supposed to give the mass to itself and all the elementary material particles. Its importance be-such that a Nobel of Physique, Leon Lederman, called it “The God particle”.