Re: The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Hello Israel Sadovnik alias Socratus,

I agree with you that at least this time the Nobel Prize was awarded for
something with strong mathematical background.

What about PCT symmetry and PC violation, I have been suspecting that T
symmetry can be explained as an artefact, and I collected mounting evidence
confirming this suspicion.

You might have a look into
http://home.arcor.de/eckard.blumschein/M283.html
and also into several passed postings of mine in the moderated groups
sci.physics.research and sci.physics.foundations.
My last message to spr was rejected with "very kind regards" by HvH "since
its relation to physics is not clear". I will copy it into the next message
of mine here.

Regards, Eckard Blumschein alias
Salviati:
... in ultima conclusione, gli attributi di eguale
maggiore e minore non aver luogo ne gl'infiniti,
ma solo nelle quantità terminate.
IR >|> IR+ =|= IR



"socratus" <israelsad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Dr. Nambu's work is very interesting.
The following discussion is from the New York Times:

Ever since Galileo, physicists have been guided in their quest for the
ultimate laws of nature by the search for symmetries, or properties of
nature that appear the same under different circumstances. ?It?s the
lamppost we search under,? said Michael Turner, an astrophysicist at
the University of Chicago.
One example of an obvious symmetry is a snowflake, which looks the
same when you rotate it one-sixth of a turn. Another is Einstein?s
theory of relativity, which says the laws of physics are the same no
matter what speed. However, in the 1960s, Dr. Nambu, inspired by
studies of superconductivity, suggested that some symmetries in the
laws of elementary particle physics might be hidden, or ?broken? in
actual practice. ?You have to look for symmetries even when you can?t
see them,? Dr. Turner said.
The principle of symmetry breaking is now embedded in all of modern
particle physics. The $8 billion Large Hadron Collider, a giant
particle accelerator soon to go into operation outside Geneva, was
designed largely to find a particle known as the Higgs boson, which is
theorized to be responsible for breaking the symmetry between
electromagnetism and the so-called weak nuclear force, imparting mass
to many particles that in theory are massless.
Imagine a pencil balanced on its point on a table ? one of physicists?
favorite examples. To the pencil while it is still on its point, all
directions along the table are the same. But the standing pencil is
unstable and will eventually fall onto the table pointing in only one
direction.
Applying this notion to a puzzle in the subatomic realm, Dr. Nambu
explained why a particle known as the pion, which carries the strong
nuclear force that holds atomic nuclei together, was much lighter than
the protons and neutrons inside it. If it were not so light, the
strong force would not extend far enough to stick nuclei heavier than
hydrogen together, said Daniel Friedan, a physicist at Rutgers.
The fact that the pion is light, he said, explains why there is a
variety of atoms in the world. ?There is a variety of atoms because
there is a variety of nuclei,? Dr. Friedan wrote in an e-mail message.
In 1972, Dr. Kobayashi and Dr. Maskawa, extending work by the Italian
physicist Nicola Cabibbo, showed that if there were three generations
of the elementary particles called quarks, the constituents of protons
and neutrons, the principle of symmetry breaking would explain a
puzzling asymmetry known as CP violation.
At the time, only three kinds of quarks were known: the up and down
quarks, which make up most ordinary matter, and the strange quark. In
1974, the so-called charmed quarks were discovered. The last pair, the
bottom and top quarks, were discovered in 1977 and 1994, completing
the three generations of two quarks each predicted by Dr. Kobayashi
and Dr. Maskawa.
The CP violation ? C and P stand for charge and parity, or
?handedness? ? was discovered in 1964 by the American physicists James
W. Cronin and Val L. Fitch ? a discovery that also won a Nobel Prize.
Until then, physicists had assumed that exchanging positive for
negative and left-handed for right-handed in the equations of
elementary particles would result in the same answer.
The fact that nature operates otherwise, physicists hope, is a step
toward explaining why the universe is made of matter and not
antimatter, one of the questions that the Large Hadron Collider is
also designed to explore.
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