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When is weak interaction a force?
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[QUOTE="snorkack, post: 6269210, member: 436348"] In case of elastic electromagnetic scattering, you cannot easily detect whether the force was repulsive or attractive. Because the true location of electron suffers Heisenberg uncertainty, if you see an electron deflected to the right, you cannot tell apart an electron that passed to the right of an electron and was repelled from an electron that passed to the left of a positron and was attracted. In case of electrostatic interaction, it is strong enough to bind bound systems. Confirming the force is attractive. But there are no known systems bound by weak force. So, how can the effects of weak force be resolved? Observe systems bound by other forces, and examine them for perturbations caused by weak force. So what are the perturbations of atoms caused by weak interaction between electron and nucleus? [/QUOTE]
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