An Interactive Monograph · Volume II
Particles & fields
Everything that has ever existed is made of seventeen things. This is the catalogue.
The companion to Hydrogenic eigenstates. Where Volume I teaches the orbital, Volume II teaches the particles inside it.
Read in any order — but start at the beginning. Start with the table →
§ Table of contents
- i The particle table A periodic table for fundamental particles: three generations of fermions, the gauge bosons, the Higgs. Mass, charge, spin, colour at a glance.Start here →
- ii The mass ladder Thirteen orders of magnitude — from the sub-eV neutrino to the 173 GeV top quark — on one log-scale axis. The Standard Model's most uncomfortable plot.read →
- iii Hadron builder Combine quarks. The interface enforces colour neutrality (qq̄ for mesons, RGB for baryons); the rest is bookkeeping. Build π⁺, K⁰, Λ, the proton.read →
- iv Feynman diagrams Compton, β-decay, μ-decay, gluon exchange. Vertices show their coupling constants; the time axis is animatable; the matrix element is printed alongside.read →
- v Fields as particles A scalar field on a line, oscillating. Excite a single Fourier mode and watch it move like a particle. The conceptual leap from QM to QFT, in one canvas.read →
- vi Decay trees Pick something unstable. Watch it cascade — branching ratios, mean lifetimes, generations — until everything that remains is stable.read →