How to Use weak force in a Sentence

weak force

noun
  • 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
  • What will govern the economy if mass consumption becomes a weaker force?
    — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Gravity is a very weak force, and measuring it with such precision is an amazing achievement.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2011
  • The electromagnetic and weak forces were replaced.
    — Big Think, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In this scenario, a WIMP would tap an atomic nucleus via the weak force.
    — Rebecca Boyle, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2019
  • To the east, the Soviet Union is a much weaker force and still Germany’s ally.
    — Bartle Bull, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • But because photophoresis only works at very low pressures and generates very weak force, it was long seen as a mere novelty.
    — Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In universes with a weaker weak force, neutrons would decay more slowly, leading to more helium.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • These particles convey one of the four fundamental forces, called the weak force, which causes radioactive decay.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • One class of hypothetical objects that might be dark matter do interact via the weak force, a phenomenon that also controls some sorts of radioactive decay.
    — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2018
  • 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 weak force is one that is unseen in daily life and exists at the subatomic particles accounting for the radioactive decay of certain particles into certain others.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
  • The requirement here was to seize the people by means of a methodically correct procedure, with the weak forces available, reducing to a minimum economic damage to war production.
    — Debbie Cenziper, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020

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