uud, or udd

Firstly, allow me to apologize for not posting for the last 5 days. Secondly, happy holidays to all, and happy new year. I shall endeavour to post more frequently even during the holidays.

Today’s math-art will not be familiar to mathematicians, but to physicists. Today’s math-art is a visual representation of the interaction between the quarks. Particularly, this is a visual intepretation of Strong force interaction, with gluons being the intermediary.

Don’t understand? Time to dust off that dusty A Levels physics text book then for a rehash on particle physics. Or if you’re lazy, I’ll explain. A nucleon (i.e. a proton or a neutron) is primarily made of 3 quarks each. Their quark denomination are uud for proton (2 Up Quarks, and 1 Down Quark), and udd for neutrons (1 Up Quark and 2 Down Quarks).

The quarks are influenced by Strong Forces, which are ‘carried out’ by bosonic particles called gluons. Naturally, there are a lot of math (and stuff like charge and force instantly become multidimensional) behind all these stuff. Together, they form the very basis of our world. Our basis of reality.

Today’s math-art was created by Jean Francois Colonna of Ecole Polytechnique, France.

If there are any particle physicists reading this, do tell me if you think this is a proton or neutron. I value your input. Thank you.