ELECTROWEAK THEORY


Meaning of ELECTROWEAK THEORY in English

Theory that describes both the electromagnetic force and the weak force . Though the forces appear to be different, they are actually different facets of a more fundamental force. This theory, formulated in the 1960s by Sheldon Glashow

born 1932

, Steven Weinberg

born 1933

, and Abdus Salam

born 1926

, represents a 20th-century scientific landmark and won its authors a 1979 Nobel Prize.

It was validated in the 1980s with the discovery of the W particle and Z particle , which it had predicted. See also fundamental interaction , unified field theory .

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