• @[email protected]
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    526 days ago

    electroweak unification

    Oh, that’s easy! Just take your understanding of how spontaneous symmetry breaking works in QCD, apply it to the Higgs field instead, toss in the Higgs mechanism, and suddenly SU(2) × U(1) becomes electromagnetism plus weak force!

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    • southsamurai
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      126 days ago

      Thanks for that. My eyeballs retreated into my skull and made their escape through my ears. They just texted me from florida.