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> About 18 particles > About 25 numbers Excellent science here!
by MauranKilom 5y ago
> About 18 particles
> About 25 numbers
Excellent science here!
- rwoerz 5y agoSounds like my tax declaration... where they ask for the number of my children.
- threatripper 5y agoYou can't contradict this. Nature is perfect.
- BearOso 5y agoObservation is part of science, but we're also limited by it. There's a lot of deeper workings that we just can't get at yet, maybe ever.
- PrettyPebble 5y agoImproved the first. The second is ok.
- mhh__ 5y agoObviously this won't help you find the particles but this seriously isn't far off capturing how shocking symmetry groups are as a tool for building theories in particle physics. The fact that you can reduce so much physics down to some invariance is very spooky.
- PrettyPebble 5y agoOr just beautiful!
- 7373737373 5y agohttps://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/constants.html https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/constants.html the mass of the up quark the mass of the down quark the mass of the charmed quark the mass of the strange quark the mass of the top quark the mass of the bottom quark 4 numbers for the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix the mass of the electron the mass of the electron neutrino the mass of the muon the mass of the mu neutrino the mass of the tau the mass of the tau neutrino 4 numbers for the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata matrix the mass of the Higgs boson the expectation value of the Higgs field the U(1) coupling constant the SU(2) coupling constant the strong coupling constant the cosmological constant
- WalterGR 5y ago^—— “How Many Fundamental Constants Are There?” by John Baez
- Maursault 5y agoGood to know the speed of light in a vacuum is not a fundamental constant.
- analog31 5y agoApparently, even vacuum is not a fundamental constant.
- Maursault 5y agoThe bad news is Nature abhors a vacuum. The good news is there's plenty of it.
- 7373737373 5y agoYep, you can just set c=1 and have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
- a_e_k 5y agoI take this to be an acknowledgement that we don't know everything. I.e., "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Haaahrvard, And there may be many others but they haven't been discohhhvered."