How to Use weak force in a Sentence

weak force

noun

• To the east, the Soviet Union is a much weaker force and still Germany’s ally.
  — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 9 May 2019
• In this scenario, a WIMP would tap an atomic nucleus via the weak force.
  — Rebecca Boyle, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2019
• That tiny asymmetry would signal the effect of the weak force, and its size would reveal the spatial spread of the neutrons.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 27 Apr. 2021
• This process is driven by the weak force, and since the early 1900s, physicists sought an explanation for why and how atoms decay.
  — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• This happens when the quarks exchange a particle called a W boson — one of the carriers of the weak force, with an electric charge of either +1 or −1.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020
• The scientists focused on the weak interaction, also known both as the weak force and the weak nuclear force.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
• The particle has its roots in studies of the weak force, which controls the decay of radioactive elements.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
• The corresponding force particles are called the W and Z bosons (for the weak force), gluons (for the strong force) and photons (for the electromagnetic force).
  — Andreas Crivellin, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2022
• The left-handedness of the weak force has subtle effects that couldn’t have influenced the cosmos on galactic scales.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
• Electromagnetism is a force that acts at large distances, but the weak force acts only at very short distances — smaller than the nucleus of an atom.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2021
• The weak force only operates at very short distances, which suggests that the particles that mediate it (the W and Z bosons) are likely to be massive.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
• His work in showing how electromagnetism and the weak force could be jointly viewed as the electroweak force was made known to the world in a paper published in 1967 in the Physical Review Letters.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
• To find dark matter, physicists like Cushman are banking on the particles to interact with normal matter through the weak force.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
• These particles would interact with ordinary matter via the weak force, which is one of the four fundamental forces in the universe.
  — Will Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• Gravity is a very weak force, and measuring it with such precision is an amazing achievement.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
• What will govern the economy if mass consumption becomes a weaker force?
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Neutrinos eschew the strong and electromagnetic forces, maintaining only the most tenuous of ties to the rest of the universe through the weak force and gravity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2016
• The electromagnetic force is identical for both spin configurations of the electron, while the weak force cares very much about the spin direction of the electron.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• There’s just one boson (the massless photon) for the electromagnetic force, three (the massive W-and-Z bosons) for the weak force, eight (massless gluons), and one (massive) Higgs boson.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Previous research found that a universe where the weak force is entirely absent could still be habitable.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
• Thus, weak force interactions will happen either more or less, depending on the electron’s spin.
  — Don Lincoln, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Such a thin fiber is extremely compliant, so even a very weak force yields a relatively large rotation.
  — Ben Brubaker, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2021
• These particles convey one of the four fundamental forces, called the weak force, which causes radioactive decay.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2019
• The prizewinners studied weak-force interactions at high energies by creating a beam of neutrinos, which do not interact through the strong force but do so by the weak force.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
• These were the relatively familiar forces of electromagnetism and gravity as well as two forces that act on subatomic particles, the strong force and the weak force.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
• In universes with a weaker weak force, neutrons would decay more slowly, leading to more helium.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
• But some researchers have proposed a type of neutrino that doesn't interact via the weak force, leaving its only interactions to come via gravity.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2018
• In the 1960s, a series of theoretical and experimental breakthroughs proposed that the weak force is transmitted by particles called W and Z bosons.
  — John Conway, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• The breaking of the Higgs symmetry created massive spin-1 particles called W and Z bosons, the carriers of the weak force that’s responsible for radioactive decay.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2019
• The Tevatron collider in Illinois smashed its last protons a decade ago, but its handlers have continued to analyze its detections of W bosons — particles that mediate the weak force.
  — Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024