Force Carrier
In particle physics, forces between particles arise from the exchange of other particles. These force carrier particles are bundles of energy (quanta) of a particular kind of field. There is one kind of field for every species of elementary particle. For instance, there is an electron field whose quanta are electrons, and an electromagnetic field whose quanta are photons. The force carrier particles that mediate the electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions are called gauge bosons.
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