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