Talk:Force carrier/Archive 1

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I'd say that this article should be merged with Gauge boson, but, actually, it might be interesting to include cases of force carriers that are not gauge bosons (e.g. the mesons in some effective field theories of hadrons). —Matt McIrvin 03:58, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

gravity

i didn't think.

Edit: improved clarity of statement

Gauge Bosons

Someone should say, in this page and the Gauge boson page, that force carrier particles are the same thing as gauge bosons, if this is correct. scienceman 01:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Possible merge/clean-up needed?

We seem to have four related articles with a common term:

• Force carrier (has 21 linked-to pages) (not for longer, already merged)
• Messenger particle (has 8 linked-to pages) (not for longer, already merged)
• Exchange particle (has 5 linked-to pages) (redirects to Force carrier)
• Gauge boson (has 97 linked-to pages)

We'll have to put some thought on this matter to see what the preferred direction is? --Sadi Carnot 12:27, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I certainly think the first three two (Exchange particle redirects to Force carrier) should be merged. Also, I think that they shouldn't be limited to fundamental particles—they should also mention that, for instance, electrons in solids interact by exchanging phonons. And I agree with Matt McIrvin about mentioning mesons.

Somewhere I'd love to see an explanation of how attractive forces can be mediated by particle exchange. —JerryFriedman 18:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

To start with, I just found http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/virtual_particles.html . —JerryFriedman 20:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

That first two articles are merged now. Correct them if I did something wrong.

—Nethac DIU, would never stop to talk here—
17:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

No, a force carrier is not necessarily a gauge boson. By the way, the present article has a thick Standard Model bias, whereas force carriers are ubiquitous wherever any kind of QFT can be found. There are phonons and other kinds of excitons, for example. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 05:06, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Warning: talk merged with "Messenger particle" talk

Splitting "Graviton". a particle carrying "gravitational force" which turned out to be a psudoforce in Einsteinian physics into its three subtypes

1. Inertion - carries the straight inertial force
2. Centrifugon - carries the centrifugal force
3. Coriolison - carries the Coriolis force