Just checking...
Everything in our universe is composed of bosons and fermions.
Fermions consist of leptons and quarks.
The quarks are the red, green, and blue flavors of the up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom quarks, and the antimatter counterparts of each of these.
The leptons consist of electrons, tau particles, and muons, and the neutrinos corresponding to each of these, and the antimatter counterparts of all of them.
Bosons are the force carriers, the photon, (hypothetical) graviton, w+,w-,z bosons, gluons, and (hypothetical) higgs bosons.
All of these particles interact through the 4 fundamental forces, electromagnetism, gravitation, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force.
Is that correct?
2007-06-26 09:21:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Oh yes, I do not really think that this is all correct. I am just trying to summarize our most accepted models in a simple way.
2007-06-26 09:30:34 · update #1
yes
2007-06-30 08:05:20 · answer #1 · answered by Abhinesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Essentially yes. I personally have a problem with the graviton and can not imaging how a single proton at a vast distance could influence another particle through particle exchange. I think is is spacial distortion. Fun, eh?
2007-06-26 16:28:20 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an excellent synopsis of the standard model although spin and mass are also important characteristics of fundamental particles.
2007-06-26 16:32:29 · answer #3 · answered by mistofolese 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would be simpler to describe all particles in the universe as being protons, neutrons and electrons, the forces you list are correct.
2007-06-29 13:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes... at least as the standard model goes.
2007-06-26 16:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by tastywheat 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋