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force carrier
(redirected from Messenger particle)

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force carrier
Any of four elementary particles that mediate one of the four fundamental forces. Force carriers are bosons. See more at fundamental force.
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These are the strong force, the weak force and the electromagnetic force, which act, through messenger particles, on the bestiary of indivisible particles that make up matter.
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