James Fodor

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So the photon is a boson.

Likewise are gluons and also the WNZ boson.

So that's the term that I use there.

It's it's a bit weird that we use the term WNZ boson.

just to describe the weak force, whereas you could you could you could call the photon a boson as well.

It's just normally you give it its name.

The the W and Z particles don't really have their own names.

They're just written as W and Z boson or just W and Z.

So don't get confused there.

They're all bosons.

It's just for some reason we use the term for the for the weak force uh ones.

So these particles that mediate a force that are responsible for sort of particles feeling the attraction or repulsion of of other forces

uh of other particles because of that force.

They're all bosons.

And specifically they're called gauge bosons.

I'll explain later why they're called gauge bosons, but that relates to something called gauge theory.

Now there is one other type of boson in the standard model, and that's the Higgs boson, which I mentioned earlier.

The Higgs boson is a bit different to the others.

It it is a boson because it has integer spin, but otherwise it's really quite different to the others.

So um generally when I'm talking about bosons, I'm talking about the gauge bosons.

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