Does the Higgs Boson Enforce the CCosmic Speed Limit

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This brings up something that puzzles me, though it's not related to the op, since we pretty much said all we need to about that, I feel safe following this digression.

I understand that gluons mediate the strong force and W and Z bosons mediate the weak force. But I've read in more than one article that by mediating the electron/neutrino/positron transformations, the W bosons cause nuclear transmutation. How can that be? How can transforming the electrons (weak force) affect the nucleus (strong force)?

Quarks are the only known particles that are affected by all known fundamental forces of nature, strong weak and electromagnetic, and gravity. A down quark can emit a virtual W- boson and turn into an up quark. This changes a neutron into a proton, and that leads to a nucleus with one higher order. The virtual W- boson can then go on into an electron and a neutrino. This process is known as beta decay because the radiated electrons were historically first called beta rays.

so you're saying when a W boson turns a positron into a neutrino or a neutrino into an electron and vice versa that is not the weak force but beta decay?

I think I'm one step closer to knowledge, even if all I know is what I don't know, that's further along than where I was before. Thanx.