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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Man, that’s me with elertroweak unification. I didn’t really understand the weak force to begin with, so it being unified with another is so far beyond my capacity I just have to call it magic
sleep_deprived@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
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!
(/s)
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Thanks for that. My eyeballs retreated into my skull and made their escape through my ears. They just texted me from florida.