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What is understood by unification and reduction in physics?

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Unification: It is a trial to correlate and unite various universal laws and basic phenomena of nature to explain an activity.

For example: Maxwell unified electric, magnetic and optical phenomenon on when he explained that light is an electromagnetic wave. Reduction : It is breaking down of a complex system in to simple constituent systems to so that laws of physics can be applied on these systems and we can understand the working of the complex system.

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