Standard Model - physics

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Pigeon
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Standard Model - physics

Post by Pigeon » Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:36 am

The standard model is the name given in the 1970s to a theory of fundamental particles and how they interact. It incorporated all that was known about subatomic particles at the time and predicted the existence of additional particles as well.

There are seventeen named particles in the standard model, organized into the chart shown below. The last particles discovered were the W and Z bosons in 1983, the top quark in 1995, the tau neutrino in 2000, and the Higgs boson in 2012

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Re: Standard Model - physics

Post by Royal » Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:38 am

What kind of particle are you?

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Re: Standard Model - physics

Post by Pigeon » Sat Oct 15, 2016 1:45 am

Some might say a strange quark.

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