Strange way of visualising particle interactions

[FeynmanMH42]

http://home.hetnet.nl/~inthepicture/quarks/"

I personally find this a brilliant way to visualise particles, but don't think there's any "truth" in the symbols, any more than there's "truth" that antiparticles in Feynman diagrams are really particles that time travel.

 

[marlon]

http://home.hetnet.nl/~inthepicture/quarks/"
I personally find this a brilliant way to visualise particles, but don't think there's any "truth" in the symbols, any more than there's "truth" that antiparticles in Feynman diagrams are really particles that time travel.

This website is known to us and it is a GOOD website.

Symbols do not mean much in this case since you must only remember this : quarks have three colours and three anti colours, and quark interactions are determined by following law : colour neutrality.

Realizing this, one understands why there are only 8 gluons and not 9. A gluon is represented by a colour/anti-colour-combination

marlon