After phys.org published a report on my work with Chris Murphy on Forward-Backward asymmetry in b-bbar production at the Tevatron, I was alerted to a report and discussion of it in reddit.

I wanted to clarify some questions in reddit about why the Standard Model has forward-backward asymmetries. The inquisitive contributor was adamant: not what is it but why is it. I welcome the challenge. After all, Feynman said something along the lines that if you cannot explain  it to a non-specialist, you simply don’t understand it.

I found that the space provided by reddit is too limiting, so I decided to write my own page about it and posted the link. There are a couple of simple mechanisms that I describe in the pages (from the menu above), but they are not exclusive. I hope this helps understand.

                                                                                                --Ben