Lecture 2 | New Revolutions in Particle Physics: Standard Model

(January 18, 2010) Professor Leonard Susskind discusses quantum chromodynamics, the theory of quarks, gluons, and hadrons.

This course is a continuation of the Fall quarter on particle physics. The material will focus on the Standard Model of particle physics, especially quantum chromodynamics (the theory of quarks) and the electroweak theory based on the existence of the Higgs boson. We will also explore the inadequacies of the Standard Model and why theorists are led to
go beyond it.

This course was originally presented in Stanford's Continuing Studies program.

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[technopagan724]

This seems a little silly to me. Occams' razor. Rather than making the assumption of a new un-testable property called "color," why not just adjust the exclusion principle appropriately. It really does seem in this story that experiment is being interpreted to fit hypothesis rather than adjusting hypothesis to fit the data.

[grunder20]

great discussion

[Jmurray123456]

@whactya It's more that, as uncharged objects, photons do not feel the electromagnetic force that they mediate.

[whactya]

Can one think as the reason photons do not interact the way gluons do is because there is only `one color' of photon?