Recent content by james mccue

Thanks for these responses guys, this kind of thing you generally can't read about in regular literature! It's helping me understand a great deal more. I'm a big fan of this concept :) I teach physics across the 11-18 age range which requires simple explanations. My students would never...

This is the one I've been using - http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~dfehling/particle.gif not sure if it's commonly used by members of this forum

Thanks guys this helps a great deal. When I say visualise I mean to imagine as a visual model. I'm just trying to get an idea of how you guys picture particles and interactions. Surely everyone doesn't think in maths?! :) What does that mean?

thanks for the response, its very interesting. I was not trying to make any scientific claims. While reading about particle physics I imagine models in my head and I want to reduce my misconceptions so I can understand things more fully. I am hoping to open a discussion to find out how the...

I'm struggling to keen my mind open when visualising fundamental particles. I've only been reading about quantum/particle physics for 3-4 years so I'm very much a beginner. (if I remember rightly) Heisenberg liked to describe things in maths and Feynman preferred visual models, I'm swinging...

My first post - Hi everyone. I've been reading about boson mass and speed for a couple of hours but I can't seem to find answers. - What is the speed of the W boson during beta decay? If it has a huge mass shouldn't it be a lot slower than leptons? - I assume the electron and...