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Asymptotic freedom
Witten: One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics. *** In physics, asymptotic freedom is a property of some gauge theories that causes interactions between particles to become arbitrarily weak at energy scales that become arbitrarily large,…
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SuperCritical Fluid
What choice do I have but to quote myself.:) At 11:47 AM, January 09, 2009, Blogger Plato said… Superfluous is a mathematical construct for sure. Continuity, asked not from the condense matter theorist point of view as Jacque’s remind, or, as Susskind speaks of Laughlin( was Susskind ever aware of Witten’s statements?) Edward WittenEdward Witten’s…
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Is the LHC Leaking Energy?
This is not to bring “the doom and gloom of micro blackhole creation” into the picture although I do see that the QGP arrived at can bring other perspectives forward, that would relegate questions to my mind. For instance. So to be clear then, the QGP is relativistic. This I understood already. This to me…
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Strangelets and Strange Matter
Of course I will point to some of the “inherent nature” that some scientists encounter as they develop the geometrical basis to “all the concepts could ever mean?” But first, “the journey.” If not fundamental, though, quark nuggets zipping around the galaxy would still be an amazing addition. And perhaps even more amazing, in the…
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Wolf-Rayet star
While I have started off with the definition of the Wolf-Rayet star, the post ends in understanding the aspects of gravity and it’s affects, as we look at what has become of these Wolf-Rayet stars in their desimination of it’s constituent properties. Similar, “in my thinking” to the expansion of our universe? Artist’s impression of…
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"Lead by Physics," Faces the "Trouble With Physics"
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC…
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Alice and the Cosmic Ballet, Now Meet Higgins
As Alice learned, it’s not always clear what’s a looking glass, and what’s a window to another world. Mirrors and windows are often interchangeable: we look out into the world, and see ourselves reflected back. We look at a reflection, and believe it’s showing us a world beyond. We internalize the mirror image and project…
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The Fate of our Planet?
Clifford at cosmic variance addresses a fundamental question about the need(?) to populate other planets, versus exploring? Clifford: And it would be nice if we did the exploration primarily out of curiosity and wonder, and not out of fear for our future But of course, as with any thread there is a diversion of thought,…
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Writing Your Story of Creation?
“No container is available, and the vaporization must occur in vacuum.” Wozniak With all that energy concentrated in a space about the size of an atomic nucleus, the colliding ions, for a tiny fraction of a second, will reach a temperature one hundred thousand times hotter than the core of the sun – hot enough…
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Have we seen (strange) quark matter?
Well the very idea that such a thing could exist, has been part of the evolving information I had been going through. To be lead to the understanding, of what new Physics would emerge fromm cosmological and collidial events. That there are indeed showers of particles with which such events will let us know cannot…
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Nature in Analog Models
Plato: “For everyone, as I think, must see that astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Oh! how complete our world view would be, that I have moved quickly to the very question of all summations given. That while “visually” occupying the mind, we had been taken…
