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human
Since the W and Z bosons that mediate the weak force are not massless, does that mean that the weak force does not propagate at light speed?
gpt
"Weak force" is a bit misleading anyway. It rarely has effects that look like a classical force. "Weak interaction" is a better term. The large mass means it does not have a long range and (combined with the short lifetime of the bosons) no radiation, these would be necessary to assign a meaningful speed value to it.