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