Message from @Fellow Comrade
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you mean why isnt it 45 degrees?
it is straight
yeah lol
because thats the random fucking angle the higgs broke the electroweak symmetry at
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
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