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What if our particles were different?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is It Because the Weak Force Is Weaker?

Heavy particles are just rarer make less likely as less likely to happen, which means it's a weaker force. And so if you turned on a flashlight, you couldn't send your photons all the way to alpha centari. Would like, peter out before they got there. So really heavy particles decay into lighter particles.

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