The Standard Model of Particle Physics
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Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
This pleases me Orion
Thank you for writing it and posting
Thank you for writing it and posting
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Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
Can you give a bit more detail on mesons ?
Are there any non-Gauge bosons?
(They've invented a lot of stuff since I did school physics! )
TIA
Pete
Are there any non-Gauge bosons?
(They've invented a lot of stuff since I did school physics! )
TIA
Pete
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Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
I thought the fundamental particles were protons, neutron, photons, croutons and newtons.
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Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
Orion Have you heard of this guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
And his "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Excepti ... Everything
His Surfer / Physicist lifestyle gets the headlines and there was a recent paper that supposedly Disproves his conjecture, " The model is formulated as a gauge theory, using a modified BF action, with E8 as the Lie group."(from wikipedia).
Way beyond me. What do you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
And his "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Excepti ... Everything
His Surfer / Physicist lifestyle gets the headlines and there was a recent paper that supposedly Disproves his conjecture, " The model is formulated as a gauge theory, using a modified BF action, with E8 as the Lie group."(from wikipedia).
Way beyond me. What do you think?
Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
Orion111....just found "the standard model" etc...that is exactly what I wanted..I shall print it out and hang it by my PC as a reference.
Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
I've been reading about the 4 fundamental forces....and I'm confused... are there 4 distinct forces, or 1 force acting in 4 different ways?
It would seem simpler to have just 1 force..."attraction"....
It would seem simpler to have just 1 force..."attraction"....
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Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
As far as I know 3 forces (electromagnetic, weak, strong) acting different at low energys but unify in the standardmodel at higher energys. GUT-theorys assume that also the 4th force (gravity) will unify with the 3 others at even higher enrgys.
But also I have difficulties to understand this unification at high enrgys and would apreciate some easy to understasnd explaination without too much math.
But also I have difficulties to understand this unification at high enrgys and would apreciate some easy to understasnd explaination without too much math.
bye
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Re: The Standard Model of Particle Physics
As far as I understand it, it's about describing these interactions in an unified way.
As an example - at low speeds, particles increase their speed with added energy; at speeds near speed of light they rather increase their mass. Quite different sets of relatively simple equations can be used to describe these two individually but we also know somewhat more complicated equations which describe both and anything in between.
For forces, similar thing happens when we reach higher energies - their effects become closer to each other. Therefore, a single set of equations can be found which describes it all - the common behavior at high energies and both different behaviors at low energies, and anything in between.
As an example - at low speeds, particles increase their speed with added energy; at speeds near speed of light they rather increase their mass. Quite different sets of relatively simple equations can be used to describe these two individually but we also know somewhat more complicated equations which describe both and anything in between.
For forces, similar thing happens when we reach higher energies - their effects become closer to each other. Therefore, a single set of equations can be found which describes it all - the common behavior at high energies and both different behaviors at low energies, and anything in between.