Equally importantly, the Higgs allows two of the four forces in nature -- the electromagnetic force and the weak force, which is responsible for most nuclear reactions -- to be unified and described by mathematics of the same type that describe the other two known forces, the so-called strong force and gravity.
The linchpin of the model is the underlying unity of two of the three forces: electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force.
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Instead, they interact through its feebler cousin, the weak nuclear force.
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The Standard Model (see table) includes familiar particles such as electrons and photons, and esoteric ones like the W and Z bosons, which carry something called the weak nuclear force.
Sterile neutrinos differ from ordinary neutrinos (electrically neutral particles produced in abundance by the nuclear reactions that power the sun) because ordinary neutrinos feel the weak nuclear force, while sterile ones do not.
The electroweak force is a synthesis of two previously identified forces of nature, electromagnetism (itself a synthesis, carried out in the 19th century, of the electric and magnetic forces), and the weak nuclear force, which governs radioactive decay.
It would force weak boards of directors to pull their socks up.
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Unemployment has fallen rapidly in all three, though as in the Midwest that is partly because of weak labour-force growth, a turnaround from the boom years when migrants from other states flooded in.
We must accept that the conventional, kid-gloves approach to socially responsible investing -- divesting shares in "bad" companies that nevertheless continue to exist -- is too weak an instrument to force change and its well-meaning practitioners too soft to enter the fray when emotionally and politically charged battles need to be fought.
The French will provide most of the troops for a 1, 400-strong peacemaking force with a weak mandate.
This is simply due to the fact that regardless of all the new pricing weapons retailers can deploy, and more potentially looming, weak consumer demand will continue to force prices down.
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Not long afterward, having decided that the Whig Party was weak and outmoded, Seward became a primary force in the birth of the Republican Party.
Block booking is an illegal tactic in which studios force theaters to make room for weak movies in order to obtain the rights to show potential blockbusters.
Tomb Raider is, at its heart, an origin story, and so that weak-to-strong progression is the driving force of the narrative and the emotional center of the game.
On an August conference call with analysts, Cohen blamed the results on a historically weak first quarter and reshuffling in Opnet's sales force.
While chess programs have played at a world-class level for two decades, backgammon software based on the same brute-force approach has never achieved more than a weak intermediate level of play.
Part of the appeal of a preventive institution-building strategy such as this is that it costs far less than having to intervene with military force in places, such as Somalia, where weak states have already failed.
To begin with, I believe that all nations -- strong and weak alike -- must adhere to standards that govern the use of force.
People, most journalists included, just assumed that the large decline in the unemployment rate on weak employment growth was caused by discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force.
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Another force behind the merger mania may be a perverse result of weak oil-share prices: it is now cheaper to buy oil reserves on Wall Street than by drilling your own well.
Our work force, although not fully utilized currently is productive and with the dollar so weak we are more than competitive.
Members of the council were preparing to circumvent her leadership and force a floor vote, an unprecedented move in modern times that would have made the speaker appear weak.
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