Fermions
Fermions represent this type of particle.
What is matter particles?
Bosons represent this these forces.
What are the Fundamental Forces?
The particles that have no resting mass.
What are photons and gluons?
The two main categories the Standard Model is comprised of.
What is Fermions and Bosons?
The Standard Model was formally created during this time period.
What is the 1970's?
Fermions are categorized into these two classes.
What are quarks and leptons?
What is gravity?
The odd naming of the quarks was because of this.
What is just being random?
The amount of particles within the quark or lepton categories.
What is 6?
What is Peter Higgs?
Generations in Fermions are classified based on these.
What is stability and mass?
The four fundamental forces in order of strongest to weakest.
What is strong force, electromagnetism, weak force, and gravity?
The least amount of variables needed to predict the behaviors of particles within the diagram.
What is 18?
The reason the Standard Model is still accurate despite excluding gravity.
What is the fact that gravity is negligible in the minuscule masses of fundamental particles?
The Higgs Boson was discovered this year.
What is 2012?
The name for fermions made of three quarks.
What is baryons?
The bosons that represent the weak force.
What is W and Z bosons?
Most common alternate theory of everything.
What is string theory?
What the Higgs Boson respresents.
What is the Higgs field?
When quarks were first experimentally proven to exist.
What is 1968? (side note: they were first theorized around 1964)
The two quantum properties that define fermions.
What is their odd half-integer spin and the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
The thing that differentiates a boson's spin to a fermion's spin.
What is the integer value of a boson's spin compared to the fractional values of a fermion's spin?
The hand that the Standard Model prefers.
What is left-handedness?
The way particles obtain their mass.
What is interactions with the Higgs field?
The equation that implied the existence of antimatter.
What is the Dirac equation?