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

what is the appropraite channel to talk about the Fuentes Politicon drama

Oof, look at all the Russian reviews.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/call-of-duty-modern-warfare/user-reviews

Oh my

My house is covered in one foot of coom