The Weak Nuclear Force and the Dissolution of the Ego - The Most Subtle Force That Changes Everything

The weak nuclear force is the least dramatic of the four fundamental forces. It is weaker than the strong force by a factor of ten to the thirteenth power. It operates at a range even shorter than...

The weak nuclear force is the least dramatic of the four fundamental forces. It is weaker than the strong force by a factor of ten to the thirteenth power.

It operates at a range even shorter than the strong force - approximately one-thousandth of a femtometer. It does not hold things together the way gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong force do.

It transforms things. The weak force is the force of transmutation - the force that causes one type of particle to change into another.

Beta decay, the process by which a neutron transforms into a proton (emitting an electron and an antineutrino), is mediated by the weak force.