🎉 Ah, the riveting world of vector mesons, where #quarks play a bizarre dance of 3x3 multiplication to create a "nonet" that even an accountant would admire. 🙄 The article attempts to explain Sakurai's grand 1960s idea, adding enough jargon to make your high school #physics teacher weep with joy. Honestly, the only thing dominating here is the #confusion. 🤯
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/vector-meson-dominance/ #vectorMesons #Sakurai #nonet #HackerNews #ngated
Vector Meson Dominance

I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the ‘vector nonet…

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