Hello @lemouth,
You know, I like to use visuals...pictures to express concepts and themes. As I was reading this post I had the impression of lightly skipping across rocks in a stream. The concepts you introduce in your blogs build upon each other so that as I read about symmetries, the standard model, and scutinos there's a continuity. There's a sense of progress (in my understanding).
Today my stepping stones, I think, were in this paragraph:
In practice, an interaction between two elementary particles is seen as an exchange of a gauge boson (or a force carrier), a particle that mediates one of the fundamental interactions.
and this sentence:
With grand unification, all fundamental interactions are combined into a single force.
Of course I don't understand everything here--how could I? But I understand what you're striving for.
I know these posts must be a lot of work, especially because you have to 'translate' for those of us who don't have a technical vocabulary. Thank you for making the effort to share this exciting research, and for educating us, ever so gently, about particle physics. (I didn't even know what that was before I read your blogs.)
Thanks a lot for your nice words, and I am happy to see that you managed to get the concepts. This is by far not easy to make understandable, but I have a lot of fun in doing so.
The two quotes that are mentioned are among the most important concepts shared in this blog. This is at the core of how any fundamental force is modeled in particle physics.
I would be happy to provide more inputs where needed.
Thank you! What I have done is review some of your previous posts (especially the one on "mirrors") so that I can put my new information in context. Slowly I'm developing my own "unified" system of understanding :) If I could think of a specific question, I would ask it. Thank you for the offer.
Ah yeah I remember those. This was some time ago :)
The pleasure is for me. I am here for this ;)