The Map of Particle Physics | The Standard Model Explained

The standard model of particle physics is our fundamental description of the stuff in the universe. It doesn’t answer why anything exists, but does describe what exists and how it behaves, and that’s what we’ll be discovering in this video. We will cover the fermions, which contain the quarks and the leptons, as well as the bosons or force carriers. As well as which of the fundamental forces each of these fundamental particles interact with, along with the Higgs field. We’ll also look at the conservation rules of particle physics, symmetries in physics and the various quantum numbers that rule which particle interactions are valid and which are not.

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References
[1] good summary
[2] CPT symmetry
[3] Arvin Ash video
[4] Conservation rules video
[5] More conservation rules
[6] Particle conservation laws
[7] Short explanation of spin
[8] Short video explaining spin
[9] Pauli exclusion principle
[10] The failure of supersymmetry
[11] A nice summary of CP-symmetry

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00:00 Intro
00:28 What is particle physics?
01:33 The Fundamental Particles
02:13 Spin
3:52 Conservation Laws
5:01 Fermions and Bosons
7:40 Quarks
11:12 Color Charge
14:13 Leptons
16:39 Neutrinos
19:08 Symmetries in Physics
21:56 Conservation Laws With Forces
23:07 Summary So Far
23:36 Bosons
25:48 Gravity
26:52 Mysteries
28:24 The Future
29:08 Sponsor Message
30:12 End Ramble

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[Digalog]

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[ElitePi]

Usually I watch these because I am interested, but end up falling asleep because it just overloads me or the presenter is boring. This video managed to keep me awake and engrossed the whole time, and I learned a lot. Thank you!

[skinshaveskills]

As a Physics student, I have to say that this is an amazing introduction to the standard model. This video deserves to be played at schools as part of their curriculum! It explains all of the important aspects in a simple way that upcoming students can easily understand. Thank you for your contributions to science communication.

[KVerne]

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*Two legos talking template*
"What is spin, exactly?"
"It's like when a ball spins but it is not a ball...and it doesn't spin"

[nickpn]

I am 63 and struggle even with atomic physics. What a wonderful world! I studied physics at school in 1970 and gave it up. Where have I been all these years?

[casasdomundo]

You explain everything so clearly that even an interior designer like me can keep up with the video until the end. Thank you so much for this great work.

[superdrag]

Less than halfway through the video and it's already one of the best-explained quantum physics videos I've ever seen.

[melm]

glad to see the long form videos are back, this one was epic. The way I like to think about spin 1/2 is to go around a moebius strip, where you kinda have to go around twice before you get back to the start

Also shout out to Chien Shiung Wu for her discovery about weak force parity breaking!

[juttarichter]

I am a beginner in the field of particle physics however a most interested one. I am really taken by your way to explain the issues related, their presentation and complexity and behaviour etc because you are doing this slowly but astute sharp to the point, with very good pictures and illustrations. I shall be back. A very big thank you for all the great work you are doing to produce your videos

[randomotaku]

I'm a beginner to physics, and being quite young it's been pretty difficult to follow through and remember everything mentioned. New concepts like spin, quarks, several things in the first few minutes. Definitely worth the rewatch, I'll watch this again when I'm in the right state of mind 👍

[joshuab]

Hey, thanks for including the bit about the neutron lifetime question. I have worked on the UCNtau experiment and its nice to see this parameter mentioned as an important question. For those curious, the lifetime is believed to be around 880 sec, but the statistics are still underperforming, and of course this result deviates from the older bottle/beam experiments by such a degree that there is not yet a consensus.

[kjpmi]

Your illustrations are amazing. This video is going to help a LOT of people conceptualize the fundamentals of particle physics.
You must have put a lot of work into this. Nicely done.

[bullettube]

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[MedlifeCrisis]

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[serroba]

I have gotten this poster in my room for a while, but every now and then, I like to watch the video again. I feel there is always a new bit I learn by watching this again. Thank you Dominic

[theraptor]

I think this is one of the best videos explaining particle physics, along with arvin ash's video. I also love that you doing longer videos now.