Really? Then you guys must be the patient users that didn't slam their cups of tea down and shout "Again?!" I think between what you guys have said here and on other similair posts I almost understand each. Thanks! Now back to the particle zoo - after I write a bit on the Higgs I'll move...
Yeah, I tried reading a Very Short Introduction to Particle Physics by Frank Close, thinking it might explain some of my uncertainties and clarify the "particle zoo" for me. It just opened more doors!
Thanks for the reference, I'll have to see if my student card's still valid for that one...
Thanks Ben, Kevin, Justin and humanino. I can see I won't be going to bed any time soon, I'll have to go and get more of a grasp on tensors and look up Einstein field equations. Maybe those guys at CERN will find the Higgs before I understand it fully!
Forgive my lack of particle physics undestanding, I'm still trying to teach myself!
I've been looking into gauge bosons and I'm trying to distinguish between the Higgs and the graviton.
From what I know, the Higgs is the particle postulated by the standard model to give all others mass...