nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyz6v2rsmc8tufcfh95x8vlz8q4gf7pctpucsj3rajrxsav62ny5fv528eua (nprofile…8eua) "there's no way something of one charge can turn into something of another charge without changing the charge of something else" vs "you can turn one [angular momentum] into the other just by rotating it" Yes, that's exactly the bias I had before reading your toots, but both angular momentum and charge are conserved quantities. Just like charge,
there's no way something of one angular momentum can turn into something of another angular momentum without changing the angular momentum of something else.
I was going to ask about this in the comments of your first video on the Standard Model, but this thing about the bits expresses it way clearer. Are there really six flavours of quark, or just six states that quarks can be in? When quarks decay, are they really transitioning to a different particle, or are they just dropping to a lower energy level? The more I read, the more I feel like the "different flavours" idea is a barrier to understanding.
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