ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

BRST formalism

Okay kiddo, have you ever played with blocks before? The breast formalism is like stacking those blocks, but with a special set of rules to make sure they all fit together perfectly.

In physics, we use something called a Lagrangian to describe how different objects move and interact with each other. But sometimes, the equations we get from the Lagrangian can be really complicated and hard to solve.

That's where the brst formalism comes in! It's a way to simplify those equations so we can solve them more easily.

So imagine we have a bunch of blocks - each one represents a different part of the equation. We want to stack them up in a really specific way, but we have to follow some rules.

For example, we might have a rule that says we can only stack blocks that are the same shape or that have the same color. Or maybe we can only stack blocks in a certain order.

In the brst formalism, we have similar rules. We have to make sure all our blocks "commute" with each other, which means they can switch places without changing anything important. We also have to make sure our blocks add up to zero - kind of like putting the same number of blocks on both sides of a see-saw to keep it balanced.

Once we've stacked all our blocks up correctly, we can use them to solve really complicated equations and learn more about how things work in the world around us!

So that's the brst formalism in a nutshell - it's like building with blocks to solve really hard physics problems. Cool, right?