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The merging of the running coupling constants of the weak, strong, and electromagnetic fields does not require the unification of these gauge fields at high energy. It can, in fact, be the property of a general fermionic system in which gauge bosons are not fundamental.
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Klinkhamer et al. (2005) studied this question.
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