Concerning your question on whether one can consider N colors, i.e. a theory with gauge group SU(N): this is what one does in the so called 1/N-expansion. Of course, it is far from obvious that an expansion in 1/N is a good idea for N=3 but in fact this expansion can explain at least...
Well, that's not really news is it? We have known for a long time that we can't describe phenomena where a quantized theory of gravity is needed. Hence the big interest in creating such a theory.
In any case, quantum gravity does not have much to do with the quark-gluon plasma, so regardless...
I find this statement interesting as I've always been told that it is baryon number conservation which leads to the proton being stable. Something I've never been entirely satisfied with as the baryon number conservation is in a sense not as fundamental as e.g. charge conservation.
Could you...
According to our current understanding a black hole will form at some point if you keep increasing the density. The density where this happens would then be the upper limit for the density (and we are far from any such limit at today's colliders). Strongly interacting matter at these high...
It is believed that for very high densities and low temperatures, quark matter is in a type of superconducting phase. Look up "color superconductivity" or "color-flavor locking".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_superconductivity
I don't know the details so I can't tell you how similar it...
The quark states are in the representation space of the ##3## representation of SU(3), and antiquarks in the ##\bar{3}##. The mesons are states obtained by combining quarks and antiquarks, i.e. ##|q\rangle \otimes|\bar{q}\rangle## states. These states lie in the direct product of the ##3## and...
I'm sorry, but I don't think you're going to get your Nobel. You won't get the Nobel Prize for a, as you put it, "scientific proposition". You get the Nobel Prize for making an important contribution to science.
Speculative posts like this are anyway not allowed on this forum. So keep...
It is still an issue however that different measurements seem to give different (charge) radii of the proton. The pessimist would say that there is something wrong with the measurement or error treatment, whereas the optimist would say that it might be due to new physics which affects...
Differential geometry is also needed if one wants to understand the geometric setting of gauge theories which are formulated using a mathematical object called fiber bundles. In short, it is good to study differential geometry if you want to be a theoretical physicist.
I'm constructing an atlas for complex projective 3-space ##\mathbb{C}P^3##. I use the construction with inhomogeneous coordinates ##z_{i}/z_{j}## and a chart is given by the points ##\mathcal{U}_j=\{z_j\ne 0\}##. At the intersections ##\mathcal{U}_i\cap \mathcal{U}_j## I should specify...
The paper is discussed in this thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=632220
My personal feeling is that the author is serious and respected, and far from a crackpot. She also has a blog which you can find at http://backreaction.blogspot.se/
Maybe I misunderstood what you meant in your last post The_Duck but what about the kinetic term in the Lagrangian - ##\partial_{\mu}\phi \partial^{\mu} \phi##? By the same logic, wouldn't this also be non-local? I am curious to the original question as I have thought about the same thing. I can...
Perhaps something like this? The key thing is that I use the geometry package to make a landscape page, and I also used two columns (see \documentclass). \amssymb is not needed for this document but might be depending on what kind of symbols you want to write.
Let me know if there is...