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AMA | June 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How to Make Sense of Fractional Charges in Quarks

In nature, in the charges that we know about, they are all multiples of each other. If you don't know any one of those words mean just wait until volume two of the biggest ideas in the universe comes out. The answer is actually a little bit interesting because electromagnetism can be thought of as being based on a U1 gauge theory.

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