The W Boson Field: The Charged Carrier of the Weak Force

The W Boson Field: The Charged Carrier of the Weak Force I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the universe manages to change one kind of particle into another. Not just shuffling energy around—actually transforming identities, like a neutron turning into a proton while spitting out an electron and an antineutrino. That’s the weak … Read more