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pictured: an electron, in two chiral components. much more to say about this later! in this visual language, red + green + blue becomes white: a colour singlet. the open eye represents weak isospin “down”; the sunglasses represent a weak-isospin singlet, neither up nor down.

the electron’s mass couples these two components. one particle, two little creatures :) full design (plain is 1st gen, boots = 2nd gen, hats = 3rd gen)

reading the (super interesting!) slides below gave me some ideas for a visual language for each basis vector in Λℂ⁵ bsky.app/profile/john...

up quark! quantum superposition of three colours × two chiral components

the neutron and proton get a bit complicated, because we get fock space, with sectors, and as far as i understand (i'm not an expert...) in each sector needs to be a colour-singlet.. i'm loving this visual language though!