After yesterday’s discussion of how a magnet works:
I happened to read a piece by Frank Wilczek on how mass works, which I thought tied in quite nicely:
(Starts on page 216)
The Wilczeck piece first appeared in New Scientist in 1999.
The Rev Dodgson said:
(Starts on page 216)The Wilczeck piece first appeared in New Scientist in 1999.
If you click on “next” just above the text it takes you straight to page 217.
I had a thought yesterday – Feynman was the trouble shooter they might have called in or threw a question at on the fly to see what he might come up with to move the process along
The Rev Dodgson said:
After yesterday’s discussion of how a magnet works:
The Rev Dodgson said:
I happened to read a piece by Frank Wilczek on how mass works, which I thought tied in quite nicely:(Starts on page 216)
No page 216. Do you mean starts page 219? Ah yes, you do. OK, I recognise the explanation of particle mass as due to the viscosity of a Higgs particle condensate “molasses”. Pity there’s no explanation of why a condensate of Higgs particles is stickier than a condensate of Nambu-Goldstone bosons.
It’s because they are sexier…
mollwollfumble said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
(Starts on page 216)
No page 216. Do you mean starts page 219? Ah yes, you do. OK, I recognise the explanation of particle mass as due to the viscosity of a Higgs particle condensate “molasses”. Pity there’s no explanation of why a condensate of Higgs particles is stickier than a condensate of Nambu-Goldstone bosons.
That’s odd.
The article definitely starts on Page 216 for me.
Page 219 has a box entitled Higgs particle cookbook.
mollwollfumble said:
“Take it as a given. I can’t explain that in anything else you are more familiar with”. That’s supposed to be an explanation?
I think it is a reasonable statement of what can and cannot be explained in the given context (interview by a non-scientist with limited time, and presumably lots of other stuff to talk about).