How fast do weak and strong nuclear forces interact?

Question

Do they interact at the speed of light like gravity and electromagnetic radiation?

Answer 1

ive tried to look this up as well. i can tell you some things about it.

the top quark has a half life of about 1×10^−25 seconds, so it cant hadronize (interact with gluons to form hadrons). according to wiki, thats 20 times shorter than the timescale for strong interactions. so the strong force should have an interaction time of around 2.0 × 10^-24 seconds. thats using wiki, so i would consider it that accurate.

as for the weak force, im having trouble finding that.

Answer 2

At no particular speed, but at less than c since they are mediated by massive vector bosons.