M&D pp.54 & 410 -- boson, lepton, meson

[Alan Westrope]

On Fri, 2 May 1997, jp4321 at IDT.NET (jporter) wrote:

>Look out below....
>S U P E R S Y M M E T R Y
>>From GR, p. 1: "No, this is not a disentaglement from, but a progressive
>knotting into..." Well, in M&D, on page 54 we have a mini "set piece" on
>knots, with an extra bonus, a lightly covered worm hole to the present and
>Superstring theory. The tip off is "the Boatswain [pronounced Bosun], Mr.
>Higgs" which pretty clearly is a reference to the theorized symmetry
>breaking mechanism put forth by Peter Higgs (and Philip Anderson), and
>depends on the yet to be found "Higgs boson." This putative particle would
>effectively tie together all the loose ends (or most of them) of
>superstring theory, and would account for why the various fermions and
>their boson partners have different masses, as well as some of the other
>seemingly assymmetric qualities of reality.

Page 410 brings us to Lepton Castle.  Leptons are subatomic particles
of (I think) very small mass, comprising electrons, neutrinos, and
muons.  This reminded me (d'Oh!) that mesons are also subatomic
particles, no?  Time to buy a copy of _Physics for Dummies_, I guess.

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