Charge quantization

ID: charge-quantization

Charge quantization by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-11-05
Charge quantization is the restriction of electric charges to discrete multiples of a basic unit. In the Standard Model, Yukawa gauge invariance and gauge-anomaly cancellation relate the quark and lepton hypercharges and imply that the proton and electron have opposite charges.

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