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Particle Masses: A Simple Rule from the Depths of Physics ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Fermion masses and mixings in supersymmetric SO(10) with third-generation quasi-Yukawa unification"
· Shaikh Saad, Qaisar Shafi
arXiv:2506.11806 · 2025-06-13 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · HEP Phenomenology
A simple formula links the masses of all particles and hints at a hidden unity of nature.
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In the boiling kettle of the early Universe, all particles might have been like identical twins, and their masses a simple number. Today, physicists have found a formula that restores this unity, explaining the strange disparity between the mass of the electron and the top quark. And it also gives us a key to dark matter.

🎯 The predicted heavyweight neutrino is about 500 times more massive than the top quark — and the top quark itself weighs almost as much as an entire gold atom.

🎬 The film 'The Theory of Everything' is about the search for a single equation. Work on SO(10) is a real step towards Einstein's dream.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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Standard Model big bang dark matter
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Friedmann equationsHubble's lawgravitational lensingNoether's theoremEinstein field equationsPlanck's law
Original: arXiv:2506.11806 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds