Richard Feynman's formalized diagrams of particle
interactions are also beautiful in their own right. Below
are a set of them from Rod
Nave's nifty Hyperphysics page. In these diagrams, up
and down mean 'forwards in time' and 'backwards in time' respectively.
Left-right indicates movement in space. In the top row, strange
quarks turn into up quarks and W- particles. The W- can then
turn into an electron and an electron antineutrino, or a down
quark and an anti-up quark. The second row shows charm quarks
transforming into strange quarks, plus assorted combinations
of other particles. The third row shows bottom quarks transforming
into charm quarks plus etc.
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