How do bosons carry force?
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I think the simplest way to explain it is that a boson isn’t like a tiny ball that somehow “carries” some sort of energy like a tennis ball carrying water, in the sense that we feel (or can detect) it when it hits something. It’s better to understand that the boson IS the energy.
If you could lay out a graph paper for a energy field (think like how space-time is depicted), then a “particle” is essentially a spike in that energy field and we “feel” the effects of this spike (or dip!) in different ways depending on what type of energy it is.
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