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n. (context physics English) One of the four fundamental forces that is associated with nuclear decay. Its gauge bosons are the W+, W- and Z0 particles.
Usage examples of "weak nuclear force".
The earliest one occurred when the strong nuclear force separated from the electromagnetic forces and the weak nuclear force.
The weak nuclear force is even more limited, having a range only one-hundredth as far.
The four forces you know about are gravitation, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force.
Three more are the `Inner Forces': the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and what is still to humanity a `hidden' nuclear force often, and erroneously, referred to as the `fifth' force.
The weak nuclear force was not well understood until 1967, when Abdus Salam at Imperial College, London, and Steven Weinberg at Harvard both proposed theories that unified this interaction with the electromagnetic force, just as Maxwell had unified electricity and magnetism about a hundred years earlier.
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.
That love is a basic force of the universe, like gravity and electromagnetism, like strong and weak nuclear force.
The weak nuclear force may associate with the Demoness Venus, and the electromagnetic force with the Demon Mars.
The mass of the proton, the strength of gravity, the range of the weak nuclear force, and a few dozen other fundamental constants completely determine what sort of universe will emerge from a Big Bang.
As his ass plummeted, he was reminded that gravity yet to be reckoned with electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force, the other fundamental forces of the universe.