"For the last 20 years or so, theorists have been a step ahead in that they've had ideas and said 'now you need to go and look for it'. Now we've done that, and they need to go scratch their heads." Scratch, Rot, scratch.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Supersymmetry down the tubes?
"For the last 20 years or so, theorists have been a step ahead in that they've had ideas and said 'now you need to go and look for it'. Now we've done that, and they need to go scratch their heads." Scratch, Rot, scratch.
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No \lesssims here, man. Al Lie algebras and fruity compact groups.
Yawn. Compact. LOL.
Got you, big time. OK, then, I'll settle for a super symmetric Veuve Cliquot, with caviar and Higgs bosons on the side.
Chickenshit SU(1,1) doesn't count.
So, is the Higgs Boson Mord?
How about SU(N,1)? Stop diggin', and pay.
AA: Yes, look like the Higgs boson took it on the noggin'. Too bad, I like the idea behind it.
Is this a Bottom story of the day story, or a Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead story?
FLATOW: Can you be a physicist without being a mathematician these days?
ACZEL: That's hard. It's hard. You require a lot of mathematics. Experimentalists don't use much mathematics, and there are other areas in physics where - but in theoretical physics it's - when you talk to theoretical physicists, and they write on the board, and then you compare it with what pure mathematicians do - I have friends in both camps - and you see the same writings, you know, differential geometry and, you know, all these topology, you know, the Calabi-Yau manifold, which...
FLATOW: My hair is hurting. My hair is hurting.
SU(N,1)!
LOL!
...and establish the noncompact model as a meaningful quantum field theory.
Wow! These guys are really kickin ass and takin names!
Meaningful, baby! Fuck experiments!
Meaningful's the name of the game when we're up for some soft bigotry of lowered expectations.
Define "meaningful".
Meaningless, but not obviously implying 0≠0.
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