RE: What is Symmetry Breaking?
June 10, 2017 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2017 at 4:58 pm by Alex K.)
(June 10, 2017 at 3:40 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(June 10, 2017 at 3:09 pm)Alex K Wrote: Hold my beer while I go on a 10 hour monologue about my dissertation topic (gauge symmetry breaking)...
Drink your beer, daddy. Beer is the intelligent man's drink. It made Bud wiser.
(June 10, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Alex K Wrote: My wife and I once worked out (for a public lecture of ours) how to explain gauge symmetry breaking by comparing it to color palettes in paintings, so...Well, gluons are a type of gauge boson that is color charged. so it makes perfect sense. Don't tell me color charging has nothing to do with perceptible colors. I don't want to hear it.
*lalalalalalalalala* It doesn't *lalalalalalala*
But you can try and make an analogy (that's how the name arose, because in the proton and neutron, red green and blue quarks combine to give you a color-neutral whole, just like when you mix red green and blue light you get white. )
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
