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The Danger of Wedges
Date published: 2024-01-17
Date modified: 2024-01-17
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“The problem with being an adult most of your
life is not having been a child long enough.”
Wyatt Pringle
In physics, what separates reality from science is that the latter is based on symmetry, while reality could not be further from it.
The masses of the proton and the neutron are not exactly equal. The particles that mediate the weak interaction have mass, while those that mediate the strong interaction do not. There are four forces and three families of particles.
What is the wedge between the masses of protons and neutrons? Quarks.
The wedge between the masses and their non-existence, in the strong and weak interactions? The fifth force.
The wedge between the four (still valid) forces and the three families of particles? The horror of horrors: the Higgs boson, the product of a field that breaks a hypothetical symmetry, giving rise to the arbitrariness of high-energy particles. What few people know is that the nickname "divine particle", which probably gently guided the Nobel Prize into the hands of Peter Higgs, is an expression of immense sarcasm, created by the physicist Leon Lederman.
The danger of wedges is that, little by little, we take them for an integral part of what they are responsible for compensating and create hypotheses that are beyond comfortable based on this false assumption.
The strong interaction does not see protons and neutrons; the fifth force would see no differences between quarks and leptons; superstrings put fermions and bosons in the same basket.
The wedge? There would be pairs of particles called sparticles.
Where is Leon Lederman when you need him?
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