What boxers do is exchanging punches (on the surface they don’t usually try to kill each other but mentally they might be thinking of doing so). This is always seen as a contest where and when two boxers inside a square arena bounded by flexible ropes. The boxer who pulls the most punches and hitting all the legal points of contact is considered the winner within a given round for a certain number of rounds, usually 10 or 15 rounds at most. Since each boxer is a quantum of action, the sport of boxing is simply an interaction between quanta of boxers. This analogy is applied to all quantum theories of high energy physics of elementary particles. In high energy physics, the boxers are the fermions or the bosons. If fermions are the boxers then the punches are transmitted by the bosons. If bosons are the boxers then the punches are still transmitted by the bosons. There are two kinds of bosons (punches) in high energy physics of elementary particles. These are the vector bosons and the scalar bosons. The categories of experimentally recorded vector bosons are the photons, the mesons, the W’s, the Z0’s, the gluons, and the yet to be experimentally recorded gravitons. One well known scalar boson is the spin zero Higgs boson.
Each scientific discovery of any punching boson in the laboratories (particle accelerators) is a good indication that the physics it was based on is correct. The punches delivered by quantum electrodynamics are the photons. The punches delivered by the electroweak theory are the photons, the W’s, and the Z0’s. The punches delivered by the mesons are more complicated since mesons are composite particles of quarks. Quarks are classified as fermions and together with the scalar spin zero Higgs bosons and the elusive graviton, although quarks are held together by the supposed gluons, quarks, Higgs particles, and gravitons still experimentally show no physical signs of pulling punches. Like human boxers, they all refused to fight or to box (quantized) and be noted as champions of the arena of pugilistic physics.


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