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Particle physics is the branch of physics that studies the fundamental constituents of matter and radiation, and their interactions. It seeks to understand the nature of particles such as quarks, leptons, and bosons, and the forces that govern their behavior, primarily through the framework of quantum field theory and the Standard Model.
Since Einstein died in 1955, very few theoretical scientists have tried to complete his work because the pendulum of history has swung toward favoring field theories based on the quantum for the expected unification of physics. Nearly... more
The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 years. Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows... more
Interpreting Lucretius as an atomist was one of the biggest interpretive errors in the history of philosophy and science.
A charged photon and its light-speed helical trajectory form a surprising new solution to the relativistic electron’s energy-momentum equation. This charged photon model is a new model for the electron, and quantitatively resembles the... more
Cleanrooms are highly controlled environments, defined by the air quality, and where certain physical and microbiological requirements need to be met. Air quality is achieved through a combination of airborne particulate control, such as... more
Part I – Spirilla Theory and Cosmology Stephen Hawking once proclaimed that String Theory may be able to unify the various forces although later he became disillusioned thinking that there may be no Theory of Everything. This very... more
Notes I took on QFT as a graduate student at Penn, mainly inspired in lectures by Burt Ovrut, but also working through Peskin and Schroeder (1995), as well as David Tong's lecture notes available online. They take a slow pedagogical... more
This research was funded by, and implemented within, a UK national research organisation, while the author was the KE and Impact Evaluation Manager responsible for assessing impact on a £15m UK government-funded research programme. This... more
In what sense do we speak of the planetary university? This essay belongs to a more comprehensive, still unpublished reflection that the authors have been developing over the past years while teaching and doing... more
The meaning of the wave function has been a hot topic of debate since the early days of quantum mechanics. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in this long-standing question. Is the wave function ontic, directly representing a... more
This paper explores current trends in the application of risk assessment to the practice of environmental monitoring by examining the following key areas: a) Determining the Frequency of Monitoring: Using the concept of risk assessment... more
The golden ring to which most physicists aspire is a unified field theory that incorporates all of modern and classical physics. Some scientists and others call this a TOE or ‘theory of everything’, but it is no more than false hubris to... more
After the birth of quantum mechanics Schrödinger raised two questions which, he thought, can only be addressed from a philosophical viewpoint. Question 1: can one frame a new ontology in strict correspondence with the symbolic system of... more
This paper explains the magnetic effect of the electric current from the observed effects of the accelerating electrons, causing naturally the experienced changes of the electric field potential along the electric wire. The accelerating... more
A superluminal quantum-vortex model of the electron and the positron is produced from a superluminal double-helix model of the photon during electron-positron pair production. The two oppositely-charged (with Q = ±e sqrt (2/α) = 16.6e)... more
These lecture notes are far from original. My primary contribution has been to borrow, steal and assimilate the best discussions and explanations I could find from the vast literature on the subject. I inherited the course from Nick... more
Two spin-½ charged half-photons, each composed of one helically-circulating electrically-charged superluminal energy quantum, compose a double-helix photon model of total spin 1 hbar and of diameter D = λ / π where λ is the photon's... more
The axiomatic basis of theoretical physics cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented -A. Einstein
Article prepared for the souvenir of the Reunion of the Alumni of Uttarpara Govt. High School, West Bengal, India
We calculate the present expansion of our Universe endowed with relict colored objects - quarks and gluons - that survived hadronization either as isolated islands of quark-gluon "nuggets", or spread uniformly in the Universe. In the... more
The theoretical view of universe is the most interesting topic of debate since past 20 th century, in which its origin to existence and how it will goes to finished off is remained as a question, and there is no ensure evidence to prove... more
Alberto Miatello " Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a... more
Time is consciousness ( Time mindness or Atomic genes , TM ) present in CCP ( thought script of Anti mind particles ) While Space is Void which is Nothing . How could space create ripples ? A Fake Mathematical Theory of Space Time... more
In the framework of a cosmological model of the Universe filled with a nonrelativistic particle soup, we easily reproduce inflation due to the quantum potential. The lightest particles in the soup serve as a driving force of this simple,... more
Given here are solutions to 15 problems on Quantum Mechanics in one dimension. The solutions were used as a learning-tool for students in the introductory undergraduate course Physics 200 Relativity and Quanta given by Malcolm McMillan at... more
A claim against Nobel Prize Board Decision – in Physics -2018 Best Greetings I send this paper as a claim to the Nobel Prize Decision Board - for their decision - for Nobel Prize in physics 2018 Of course I have nothing against the... more
New ideas for interactions and particles: This paper examines the possibility to origin the Spontaneously Broken Symmetries from the Planck Distribution Law. This way we get a Unification of the Strong, Electromagnetic, and Weak... more