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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What is the weak nuclear force?

Whenever i hear about the 4 fundamental forces, i always hear 3 of them explained very to fairly well, and then we get to the weak nuclear force and whoever is explaining mumbles something about radiation and quickly moves on.

So, reddit, what is the weak nuclear force, and what does it do?
gpt
Calling it a force in the f=ma sense is misleading, it's better to call it an interaction. Basically it's a way for one particle to turn into another,  while absorbing or emitting a neutrino. The classic example is beta decay, where a neutron turns into a proton and an electron while emitting a neutrino.