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[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Is that actually true? I'm not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.

[–] nxn@biglemmowski.win 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Not the person you replied to, and not really an expert either, but I can tell you that the W and Z bosons (force carriers for the weak force) are very short lived and can only travel through space so far before they decay. This effectively puts a cap on the distance of weak interactions.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Strong force is the same.

I don't know if it's shorter than the weak force, but you gotta be in an atom's nucleus to experience it

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

TIL the Univers was written in Haskell

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