Gravity, electromagnetism and the strong force all feel pretty intuitively like forces. Gravity and EM are basically radial force fields. And strong force is sort of like spring tension that scales with distance. So they all feel pretty force-like. If the weak force is a fundamental force, what is an intuitive way to think of it that feels more force-like? The way it’s described sounds more like just a funny interaction inside the nucleus that turns one type of particle into another.
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It can still be described like a radial force field just the same, albeit on a much smaller scale. To put it another way, the fact it’s called a force already defines that, the weak part indicates the scale difference.
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