Fundamental particles We call those that could not be Reduced to smaller things Ex-perri-mentally [Break] Electric charge in thirds The six Quarks are the ones That make up ‘normal’ matter: Composite Barry-ons [Break] Quarks cannot live alone Join in groups of three And just like all else particles Each of the six has its An-tee [Break] Then come another six The solitary Leptons And of these particles Most famous are Electrons [Break] Who with Taus and Muons Have a charge of minus 1 And each is paired with neutrino That has electric charge of none [Break] Fundamental particles We call those that could not be Reduced to smaller things Ex-perri-mentally [Break] Now to Gauge Bosons Who do two things tell: If to come together Or else to repel [Break] The most famous of them Is the massless light Photon But too we have Gluons And the Double Yoo / Zee Bosons [Break] Think of two particles As stationary marbles Where Gauge Bosons fill The part of ditch or hill [Break] If between the marbles A ditch should appear They will roll inside Ending up more near [Break] But if a hill should rise It will push the two away A Photon can play either part Depends on each marbles’ charge [Break] Fundamental particles We call those that could not be Reduced to smaller things Ex-perri-mentally [Break] Last, the Higgs Boson A thing in its own class It has no spin, nor charge But to the rest confers mass [Break] The Higgs Boson FIELD Exists everywhere Think of it as syrup Invisible, but there [Break] Almost all moving through Experiences ‘drag’ And those that find it tougher Greater mass we say they have [Break] The Higgs Boson itself Is like a syrup clump Through decay, in L-H-C We saw it indirectly [Break] Now hear something crazy There’s no physicality To any particle So, nor to you and me [Break] Caused by energies, like Sudden gust on pond All they are is ripples, in The many fields beyond [Break] That of the Higgs Boson Permeating time and space Means matter is just energy Vibrating fields in some place [Break] Fundamental particles We call those that could not be Reduced to smaller things Ex-perri-mentally
