Natural Science Forum / Physics / Research / April 2005

Are there any alternatives to the Higgs mechanism?
If not, why is everyone waiting this theory to crash at LHC ?
I've heard about Hawking strongly objecting to this mechanism,
predicting that the Higgs boson will not be found in LEP and so on...

Stars that emit laser radiation
 http://laserstars.org
Very strong stellar winds can produce plasma recombination lasers.
Rapidly cooling hot plasmas can generate a population inversion.

The Kepler problem for a particle of mass m, momentum p = p(t),
position r = r(t) under an inverse r^2 force with respect to a center
located at the origin may be defined by
            m dr/dt = p, dp/dt = -Kr/|r|^3.

I have come across some old papers of Yoshio Koide:
Phys.Lett.B120:161,1983 A fermion-boson composite model of quarks and
leptons
Mod.Phys.Lett. A5 (1990) 2319 Charged Lepton Mass Sum Rule From U(3)

As a result of a dispute with somebody who admittedly
knows a lot more about this than I do, I have been
reading some of the ancient
papers about Euclidean quantum gravity, which I hear Cumrun Vafa

Hmm the pdg webpage only containst the last average of
measurements for standard model masses and couplings.
Does anybody knows of some article tracing the evolution
of [predictions and] measurements of typical parametes,

this is more of a question regarding what might be considered fundamental
dimensions of physical quantity.  assuming we can stay away from the issues
of whether or not the speed of light is dimensionless (since it is defined)
and the equivalent question of whether energy and mass ...

I'm looking for informations (articles, etc.) about supercapacitors
based on carbon nanotubes.
Martin

Could someone explain to us non-experts what are the
ramifications (for QCD) of the recent results from RHIC on
the "quark-gluon liquid"? Are these data unexpected and/or
conflicting with QCD predictions regarding the quark-gluon

I am pretty confused on this..I have not met any convicing explantion
which could point to a resolution of this doubt.
I do understand that Tachyons can exist without viloating causality
provided there are some restrictions on their interactions with

Why does time slow down near a black hole?  Isn't that the same as
asking why does acceleration slow down time?

In the 2004-2005 academic year, the Quantum Gravity Seminar
at UCR is about gauge theory and topology.   Derek Wise took
notes of my lectures.
In week 3:

Short version:
Interference between two microwave transmitters cannot be
explained with the "photon" theory of electromagnetic
radiation (emr).  This theory cannot be a true

Dear all - Making sense of the standard double-pinhole experiment is
not easy for the layman! In order to better understand complimentarity,
an experiment is proposed. What is wrong with this thought experiment?
Please view (you may need to scroll horizontally):

The only two QGrav theories that I've heard of are
-String theory
-Loop Quantum Gravity
Is it true that String theory deparst from the General Gravity? Why,