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W boson in Podcasts

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A theoretical particle that mediates the weak nuclear force, responsible for certain types of radioactive decay.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#497 โ€“ Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE โ€“ Don Lincoln

In the case of the weak force, we call them now the W and Z particles.

The Why Files: Operation Podcast
Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

We also get into why dark matter might have its own version of the Higgs boson, and why a philosopher named Hartree Field re-derived gravity without using numbers.