remember the higgs boson

it could have landed anywhere

in our universe thats the angle it landed at

weird.

yeah its fantastically beautiful

they talk about pre-higgs we had a false vacuum meta-stable with a mexican hat potential

let me find a graph

basically the ball started at top

it could fall anywhere in the ring at the bottom

in our universe symmetry broke at this angle

i should also mention the angle you get is really a function of the units

too deep 4 me lol

you can use different units for X and Y to make higgs 45 degrees if you really want

surely you can see that the circle at that mexican hat potential

represents where the higgs is

from there you get an angle

Fuguer you need to do an episode with Papa
About big brain physics

yeah i get how the mexican hat works, it's just not super intuitive. that's all lol

I am really better at writing than speaking, sometimes i feel like im trying to squeeze too much thought through a tiny hole to talk

especially about complex stuff like this

the tiny hole is my brain hole. it's tough to fit things in there.

so back to that graph

u = up quark, d = down quark. e = electron, v = neutrino

W+/-, and Z are the weak bosons

y = photon

yeah and r/l is spin right?

it is the spin really yes

and what we see is fascinating

left and right handed spinning versions of the particles dont behave the same

see that right handed electrons dont interact with weak force

i.e. e(r) sits right on the 0 of the x-axis

if a particle has a line over it, thats the antimatter version of the particle

so theres 4 different electrons.

i with you so far.

left handed and right handed electron

and left handed and right handed positron

notice how the DISTANCE between every particle

is represented by a force carrier vector

i.e. if you take a down quark and add W to it, you get an up quark

ok i'm starting to get a bit lost now. lol

oh yeah i get you

left and right handed particles are connected by higgs interactions

higgs is the center line

oh that's pretty cool

yes this is fantastic image

so, when a left handed down quark interacts with higgs field, it becomes right handed down quark

and etc for all the other particles

so this BREAKS a symmetry

the higgs field is infinite

so all these particles can jump around on the X and Y axis

so the stable dimension that remains

is perpendicular, the electric charge

thats preserved after higgs interactions

epic

this is why we say the higgs is responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking

and now you basically understand how it works

if i ever get past undergrad physics, i'm coming to you for questions i have. lmao

The only things this chart leaves out are like.... really theres 3 generations of matter, so pretend its superimposed on another dimension for flavor.

you've heard of electron, muon, and tau right

yeah

similarly for quarks, its up/down, charm/strange, and top/bottom

and this chart completely leaves out gluons, the force carriers of the strong force

but there's no way we can show all that in 2d

if we tried, it would look something like this

this chart is rotated so that Q (electric charge) is vertical

there's a lot of information in that.

its the exact same chart from before, but it shows the 3 generations of matter

yeah

and for gluons/quarks the color

this is a 2d projection of a higher dimensional chart

you could spend hours trying to understand that without someone explaining it

right

thats why i mix how i learn, some classes, blogs, wikipedia, books

anyway, i should be off, i am procrastinating. i have a computer science assignment due in 4 hours, and my team are all illiterate arabs so i have to carry them.

thanks for the intermission. lol

T3 is the third component of weak isospin

np, thanks for understanding

sometimes i feel its hard to explain this, glad it made sense

you did well for sure. especially in so few words. but i have some small history with physics, so it might be harder for people without any physics background at all.

the chart shows some fascinating stuff too

like we still dont know if neutrinos are their own antiparticle or not

which comes down to if they're majorana or goldstone bosons

neutrinos are the most recent case where we had to amend the standard model just a few years ago. we thought they were massless and proved thats not the case

their mass is so small that its actually not even definite, i.e. it doesnt commute with their flavor

since neutrinos are always emitted with a definite flavor (electron usually), that means theyre emitted with a superposition of different masses

existing as a superposition of masses means they travel at slightly different speeds and their wavefunction gets smeared out... the interference patterns changing can cause us to observe the neutrinos as a different flavor

thats why we saw 1/3 of neutrinos emitted from the sun changing flavor

you're like me i think. it helps you to talk about the issues to someone else to better understand them yourself. lol

i'll be back in a few hours and can get more involved.

yeah explaining things helps you remember them and also put them in different contexts and understand them better

fuggg

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