The Edge of Atom Land: News from the Energy Frontier with Jon Butterworth
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 placed physics in a position unique in history. We have an internally consistent theory of fundamental physics - the Standard Model - which scored a huge success by predicting that discovery. Yet the Standard Model is not a “theory of everything”. It leaves many key questions unanswered, and seems so far to provide little clue as to where those answers might lie. I will describe the current landscape and discuss options for continuing the exploration beyond our current map of subatomic physics.
Jon Butterworth is an experimental particle physicist working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and Professor of Physics at University College London. He grew up in Manchester, took his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Oxford, then moved to DESY, Hamburg to work for Pennsylvania State University on the ZEUS experiment at the HERA electron-proton collider. He joined UCL in 1995, and was Physics Chair of ZEUS in 2003-2004. He was a physics convenor of ATLAS during first data taking (2010-2012). He won the Chadwick Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 2013 for his pioneering experimental and phenomenological work in high-energy particle physics, especially in the understanding of hadronic jets. He was head of the department of Physics & Astronomy at UCL (2011-2018) and has written two books and many articles on particle physics for the general public.
This Heinz R. Pagels Memorial Lecture was originally recorded at the Aspen Center for Physics on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.
It was nice to be informed that a divided particle can only divide so small. A limit. Honest conversation is delightful. Thankyou
A friend of mine who works at CERN (Atlas) and UCL lent me the book "Atom Land" a few years ago. Since then, I've continued the journey through infinitely large and infinitely small worlds, embarking on a series of other books about particles, quantum phenomena, black (or white) holes, CMB, gravitational waves, ...
Much to my delight !
Care to provide books that you read and like??? Thanks.
I really enjoyed the maps drawn by Chris Wornell - and they are cleverly drawn, as the neutrinos in lepton land are very close to the antimatter border (because they may be Majorana particles, and anti-particles to themselves!!). The maps are fun, but also very well thought out.
About half way through this bros book (atom land), what a monster human being, it's like the bro makes it so digestible that i started believing i know a tau from a cow. The book was $4 used, it's wild that this much information is this cheap, godspeed.
What do the Twistors of Roger Penrose and the Geometric Unity of Eric Weinstein and the exploration of one extra spatial dimension by Lisa Randall and the "Belt Trick" of Paul Dirac have in common? Is the following idea a “Quantized” model related to the “Vortex Theory” proposed by Maxwell and others during the 19th century?
In Spinors it takes two complete turns to get down the "rabbit hole" (Alpha Funnel 3D--->4D) to produce one twist cycle (1 Quantum unit).
Can both Matter and Energy be described as "Quanta" of Spatial Curvature? (A string is revealed to be a twisted cord when viewed up close.) Mass= 1/Length, with each twist cycle of the 4D Hypertube proportional to Planck’s Constant.
In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately 1/137.
1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface
137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted.
The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.)
If quarks have not been isolated and gluons have not been isolated, how do we know they are not parts of the same thing? The tentacles of an octopus and the body of an octopus are parts of the same creature.
Is there an alternative interpretation of "Asymptotic Freedom"? What if Quarks are actually made up of twisted tubes which become physically entangled with two other twisted tubes to produce a proton? Instead of the Strong Force being mediated by the constant exchange of gluons, it would be mediated by the physical entanglement of these twisted tubes. When only two twisted tubules are entangled, a meson is produced which is unstable and rapidly unwinds (decays) into something else. A proton would be analogous to three twisted rubber bands becoming entangled and the "Quarks" would be the places where the tubes are tangled together. The behavior would be the same as rubber balls (representing the Quarks) connected with twisted rubber bands being separated from each other or placed closer together producing the exact same phenomenon as "Asymptotic Freedom" in protons and neutrons. The force would become greater as the balls are separated, but the force would become less if the balls were placed closer together. Therefore, the gluon is a synthetic particle (zero mass, zero charge) invented to explain the Strong Force. The "Color Force" is a consequence of the XYZ orientation entanglement of the twisted tubules. The two twisted tubule entanglement of Mesons is not stable and unwinds. It takes the entanglement of three twisted tubules to produce the stable proton.
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