Help me complete the standard model!

[Aelfyre]

Ok, so I noticed some instances of symmetry between quantum level and macroscopic level structures today..

specifically there are 6 flavors of quark and 6 colors of M & Ms.. creepy huh? but it gets wierder.. obviously the Ms are the particles and the Ws are their anti-particle equivalents because this bag had slightly more Ms than Ws..

So that being said I decided to recreate the standard model.. so far I've only got four particles...



Anyone else have any other recipes to contribute?

[Soralin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mesons

That should keep you occupied for a while. Basically, any set of 2 or 3 that ends up with an integer charge tends to work as a particle, at least temporarily, before they decay (or in this case, get eaten )

[Aelfyre]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mesons

That should keep you occupied for a while. Basically, any set of 2 or 3 that ends up with an integer charge tends to work as a particle, at least temporarily, before they decay (or in this case, get eaten )

thanks! yeah the only thing I got figure out is how physicists all these years have gotten it so wrong.. from my data the half life of a proton is approximately 45 seconds

EDIT: On a related note? HOE. LEE. CRAP! I'm gonna need a bigger bag of M&Ms...

[zmatt]

because this bag had slightly more Ms than Ws..

lol I hope this was a joke.

[Aelfyre]

because this bag had slightly more Ms than Ws..

lol I hope this was a joke.

no but it almost was.. I also stumbled across a certain number of 3s and Es but I discarded those since those must correspond to particle of imaginary mass.

[zmatt]

XD

[MHD]

I was thinking of Pixie Stix as Fermions...

[Lorenz]

I just opened a bag of m&ms, hoping to find exciting new particles. I ended up with your quarks. I then remembered seeing an interesting case. It may be a boson, but you are the expert in the field Aelfyre... What do you think?

[Aelfyre]

I just opened a bag of m&ms, hoping to find exciting new particles. I ended up with your quarks. I then remembered seeing an interesting case. It may be a boson, but you are the expert in the field Aelfyre... What do you think?

Hmm well at first glance it's definitely a Force carrying particle of some kind.. this warrants further investigation..

[Quizatzhaderac]

"Help me complete the standard model!"

That is the title of the game on the children's place mat of the smartest restaurant in the world.

[mfb]

"complete the standard model"
In that case, you need more particles:
Electrons, Muons, Tauons and their neutrinos - well, maybe you can get away without the neutrinos and just say they interact not enough to see them.
Photons, W- and Z-bosons and gluons (there are 8 gluons, but 1 is enough as you don't use colors for the quarks)