James Fodor
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The Science of Everything Podcast · Episode 164: Gauge Theory and the Higgs Boson · 30 Aug 2026
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instead of just the one.
That means there are now going to be three boson fields that are generated by our uh our gauge symmetries.
When we pr when we require these transforms, that these transformations that preserves invariance of the fields, now in multiple dimensions instead of just the one, we now get three gauge fields instead of the one gauge field.
That's why there are three bosons that uh mediate the weak force, W plus, W minus, and the Z bosons.
It's because of the weak doublets that the particles exist in, that there's this sort of pairing between them.
And this relates to the fact that they they share the same weak flavor.
Each doublet has a corresponding weak flavor.
that um that they have and that means they sort of interact together um with the weak nuclear force.
I'll explain that a little more later when we get to interactions.
But but basically there's a pairing that happens.
It doesn't mean that you you can only find the particles together.
Understand this.
It means that when they interact, they interact in pairs.
Electrons with an electron neutrino or a muon with a muon neutrino, an up with a down and so forth.
So these pairings that happen with um at least many types of weak interactions
gives rise to th this property that we call weak flavor.
I mentioned this before.
Electrons and electron neutrinos have the the flavor of essentially like the electron type weak flavor.
This is why they're paired together in these doublets that share the same flavor.
They interact in those doublets.
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