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Does the weak force attract or repel?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What Does a Force Do Attract and Repell?

The w particle doesn't just attract or repel. In fact, you can't even really think of it as attracting or repelling because the w particle transforms a particle. For example, if an electron interacts with a w particle, what how does it do that? Whell to give off a w particles, it has to lose its electric charge. And so the electric charge goes with the w, and the electron is no longer an electron. It turns into a neutrino.

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