John Carlos Baez on Nostr: But thw whole story I just sketched leaves out the fact that each of the particles or ...

But thw whole story I just sketched leaves out the fact that each of the particles or antiparticles in the chart is a so-called 'Weyl spinor', and thus has 2 spin states. These can be described using a 6th bit:

• Andrew Hamilton, Six bits, https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12293

I'm fascinated by this paper now! The cool part is how this sixth bit connects the chirality of particles to how they interact with the weak force - for example, the left-handed electron interacts with the weak force while the right-handed one does not.

So much more to say! Alas, not now - I hope to cover it in my videos on the Standard Model.

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