What Do We Mean When We Say That Particles Such

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Multiple Choice

What do we mean when we say that particles such as neutrinos or WIMPs are weakly interacting?

• A)The light that they emit is so weak that it is undetectable to our telescopes.
• B)They are only weakly bound by gravity,which means they can fly off and escape from galaxies quite easily.
• C)They respond to the weak force but not to the electromagnetic force,which means they cannot emit light.
• D)They interact with other matter only through the weak force and not through gravity or any other force.

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