I've read that the W and Z "messenger" particles that govern the strong nuclear force are many, many times heavier than a single proton. If this is so, why don't we observe this weight? Where is that much mass coming from, and where is it going? Why does a messenger particle have mass at all? Most of all I can't understand how we're not seeing this mass show up in standard observations. I mean really... what's up with that?
2006-06-27
17:37:35
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