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2022-11-23: How To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos

  • 03:29: When neutrinos pass through the ice of ice cube, one in a million interact with water molecules via the weak force.

2022-10-19: The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!

  • 08:37: ... and account for all the different types of gluon. The bosons of the Weak force get a term like this also, although its SU(2) symmetry leads to ...
  • 08:52: ... weak force also has a second kinetic term that looks a lot like electromagnetism; a ...
  • 12:52: ... in space and time and how it interacts with the massive bosons of the weak force. ...

2022-10-12: The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

  • 15:45: ... of a second after the big bang the EM force separated from the weak force, and   then the fine structure constant was within 10% ...

2022-09-14: Could the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?

  • 06:47: We’re left with two neutral bosons: the Z boson of the weak force and the Higgs.

2022-06-30: Could We Decode Alien Physics?

  • 10:41: ... more obvious ways than charge symmetry.   That’s because the Weak Force only interacts with left handed particles and right ...

2022-04-27: How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass

  • 00:46: ... most powerful clue driving this is the weirdness   of the weak force - in particular the particles  that carry this force. Its W and Z ...
  • 01:14: This allows the weak force to trespass  on the province of electromagnetism,   suggesting a connection between the two.
  • 03:36: ... gauge field that has 3 force carriers that  look awfully like the weak force ...
  • 04:08: ... except that the predicted particles  are massless, while the real weak force bosons   are, as I mentioned, pretty hefty. That’s a ...
  • 04:37: ... still has bosons that look a bit like  the photon and the three weak force bosons, but   the latter are still massless, and the ...
  • 00:46: ... most powerful clue driving this is the weirdness   of the weak force - in particular the particles  that carry this force. Its W and Z ...
  • 03:36: ... gauge field that has 3 force carriers that  look awfully like the weak force bosons. ...
  • 04:37: ... still has bosons that look a bit like  the photon and the three weak force bosons, but   the latter are still massless, and the resulting  ...
  • 04:08: ... except that the predicted particles  are massless, while the real weak force bosons   are, as I mentioned, pretty hefty. That’s a huge  deal breaker ...

2022-03-23: Where Is The Center of The Universe?

  • 16:27: Al H asks what particles and interactions existed before the electroweak force split into electromagnetism and the weak force.
  • 17:45: Does that mean it stops interacting with the weak force?

2022-03-16: What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

  • 09:07: The secrets of electric charge are actually hiding in the last, most obscure of the quantum forces - the weak force.
  • 09:20: First, the weak force can transform particles into  other particles - something no other force can do.
  • 10:02: Only particles with left-handed chirality feel the weak force.
  • 10:45: Weak isospin is effectively the charge of the weak force, carried by these W bosons.
  • 11:35: That's right, quarks feel the weak force and obey the same rule for their electric charge.
  • 11:55: Let me summarize where we've got to: the charge  that drives electromagnetism is governed by the charges that drive the weak force.
  • 12:13: What we’ve learned is that electromagnetism and the weak force are deeply connected.
  • 10:45: Weak isospin is effectively the charge of the weak force, carried by these W bosons.

2021-01-26: Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?

  • 07:04: They don’t even interact by the weak force, which means they’re almost impossible to detect.
  • 11:50: Ergo, WIMPs interact by the weak force only, or something weaker.

2020-11-04: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces

  • 01:06: That's Not very satisfying - but it’s how the weak force was first identified.
  • 04:33: ... as we'll see, the simple requirement that the weak force was mediated by massive particles ultimately unified the weak force with ...
  • 08:24: But the bosons of the weak force have to have mass.
  • 09:01: In order for the weak force bosons to have mass, we have to willingly break the symmetry that gave us them in the first place.
  • 10:43: So what if something similar is happening with the field that gives us the weak force?
  • 11:21: It turns out that both the weak force AND electromagnetism come from the breaking of a larger symmetry group.
  • 11:48: ... for the photon and a massive, broken SU(2) field that gives the massive weak force ...
  • 12:13: Back then, electromagnetism and photons and the weak force didn’t exist.
  • 12:47: ... to really make this work - to give the weak force bosons their mass - we have to conclude that really these fields, these ...
  • 09:01: In order for the weak force bosons to have mass, we have to willingly break the symmetry that gave us them in the first place.
  • 11:48: ... for the photon and a massive, broken SU(2) field that gives the massive weak force bosons. ...
  • 12:47: ... to really make this work - to give the weak force bosons their mass - we have to conclude that really these fields, these ...
  • 12:13: Back then, electromagnetism and photons and the weak force didn’t exist.
  • 00:41: Today we're going to begin an exploration of how the electromagnetic and weak forces were once a single thing.

2020-02-11: Are Axions Dark Matter?

  • 01:05: ... combined charge and mirror inversion and - or in physics-speak, the weak force is not CP symmetric - its behavior changes if you flip charges and do a ...
  • 02:11: ... do with axions? Well hold on, we’ll get there. Given CP violation in the weak force it’s natural to ask if it happens in the strong nuclear force also. The ...

2020-01-06: How To Detect a Neutrino

  • 04:24: ... to ♪ (𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯) ♪ exchange one of the carriers of the weak force: ♪ ♪ a W or Z boson; ♪ (𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴) ...
  • 05:05: ... (𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘰) ♪ Now, the thing about the weak force bosons is that they are massive, ♪ ♪ unlike the massless photon or ...

2019-08-19: What Happened Before the Big Bang?

  • 05:59: Those are theories that combine the strong nuclear force with electromagnetic and weak forces.

2019-01-16: Our Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe

  • 03:02: ... only affects left chiral fermions right chiral fermions don't feel the weak force at all but the opposite is true of antimatter right chiral anti fermions ...

2018-11-21: 'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens

  • 16:04: It appeared to say that the weak force is 1,024 times stronger than gravity.

2018-10-03: How to Detect Extra Dimensions

  • 04:44: ... the electromagnetic strong and weak forces are all in the same ballpark in terms of strength, gravity is vastly ...

2018-07-04: Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?

  • 05:34: The right chiral antielectron feels the weak force, while the left chiral antielectron does not.

2016-01-06: The True Nature of Matter and Mass

  • 10:25: Then the weak force carriers gained mass and became differentiated from the electromagnetic carrier-- the photon.
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