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- adjective Of or relating to the combination of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces in a unified theory.
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- adjective physics Describing the
combination of theelectromagnetic andweak nuclear forces
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Examples
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"In this process, which we call electroweak burning, huge amounts of energy can be released," the researchers wrote in the scientific paper.
FOXNews.com 2010
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One that I (and others) have worked on is related to the idea of electroweak baryogenesis.
The Results of Resonance Mark 2008
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Technically, it is needed to explain a phenomenon called electroweak symmetry breaking, which divides two of the fundamental forces of nature, electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force.
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Somewhere in the energy range it covers (up to 14TeV) there must be something that explains something called electroweak symmetry breaking.
The Guardian World News Ian Sample 2010
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Einstein struggled and failed to formulate this theory, but it has already been shown that at high enough energies electromagnetism and the weak force are the same force known as the electroweak force.
democracyarsenal.org 2009
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Einstein struggled and failed to formulate this theory, but it has already been shown that at high enough energies electromagnetism and the weak force are the same force known as the electroweak force.
TalkLeft 2008
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Physicsts believe a new class of stars -- dubbed "electroweak" stars -- are hiding out somewhere in the universe.
FOXNews.com 2010
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'electroweak' star is a stellar corpse too massive to be a quark star, yet too light to collapse into a black hole.
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A new theory uniting the weak force with electromagnetism had called for the existence of new particles that mediate the unified "electroweak" force.
Simon van der Meer, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 85 2011
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Those are the electroweak force in action -- it is the same stuff that makes electronic devices possible.
mrissa: Addition, subtraction, numini...tion? mrissa 2010
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