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Structure Of Matter, 6, David Peak
Structure Of Matter, 6, David Peak
Structure of Matter
Quantum Flavor Dynamics (QFD), I
That each generation of the quark and lepton periodic tables (i.e., electron, muon, and tauon–see SM 1, p.1) has two members (a neutrino and a charged particle) that can be flipped into one another by emission or absorption of W bosons is reminiscent of how the angular momentum spin-1/2 component of a charged particle can be flipped between “up” and “down” orientations along some direction ( z ) in space by emission or absorption of photons. This analogy is made more graphic by labeling flavor rows by a new kind of “spin” (completely unrelated to …