(July 24, 2017 at 8:08 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(July 23, 2017 at 4:12 pm)Alex K Wrote: 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?
No no! It is the weak force, mediated by W bosons. I was just saying that the weak force equally affects leptons and quarks, and just mentioned beta decay as the most famogs example where both occur.
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