weak nuclear force
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However, the weak nuclear force is exceptionally difficult to study as it is overshadowed by the much greater effects of the strong nuclear and electromagnetic forces.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024
The weak nuclear force drives the process of nuclear beta decay.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024
That discrepancy could have signaled that massive new particles lurking in the vacuum alter the mass of the W, which conveys the weak nuclear force just as the photon conveys electromagnetism’s force.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
More recently, the weak nuclear force has been shown to be connected to the electromagnetic force in a manner suggesting that a theory may be constructed in which all four forces are unified.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
To explain what kept atoms together, other forces were needed, and in the 1930s two were discovered: the strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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