Message from @fuguer
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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