Comments on: Thanksgiving

By: fqassemi

fqassemi — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:13:03 +0000

Hi to all, owners and contributors.
After a long reading of this blog I joined to add something, although I would like to share my ideas on lots of discussions but I would like to add about this topic which I, presently, I engage with. My point is on the name of this huge Lagrangian. I think the name is better understood if one says “Standard model of particle Physics INTERACTION”. The fight is not on the name but is on what we expect from this functional. Quantum Mechanics came in to explorer shortages of classical physics but later on with Heisenberg suggestion just observables(!) were considered ( as a matter of fact I think it is rather pragmatic view point). I don’t extract this issue more and say my point, finally our QFT were invented to explain INTERACTION between elementary particles nothing more about origins! So, the problem becomes ambiguous when for example GR come into account where based on Einstein theory it is not about interaction!

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:11:47 +0000

Does love follow from the standard model? What is your definition of love anyway? If everything about us is governed by and a product of the laws of physics, then the only thing love can be is a feeling. We don’t decide who we choose to love not only because there is no such thing as free choice but also because love is reduced to feelings which are a manifestation of brain chemistry governed by the laws of physics, and we do not will the feelings we have for people.

By: Count Iblis

Count Iblis — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:06:35 +0000

Vince, clearly we can love another person, so that idea cannot be destroyed by anything. You should turn this problem around and conclude that given the fact that we can love other person, the laws of physics allow for that.

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:26:52 +0000

Hey, at least the statement “fate brought us together” now means something.

Okay, better go now and execute some more of my internal source code.

By: Vince

Vince — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:15:20 +0000

Thank you, Count, for destroying the idea of loving another person. Whether or not a marriage works out depends on physical state of the brain and the world. What all the particles are doing at that time, that is. Hear that, y’all?

By: Count Iblis

Count Iblis — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:16:42 +0000

Vince, free will is just an illusion. Without any external influence, what you will do in the future depends only on what is exactly going on in your brain. But you can’t be aware of everything that is going in your brain because the brain stores a lot of other information besides keeping an eye on itself.

By: Count Iblis

Count Iblis — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:04:15 +0000

Any QCD in there?

The first term of L_{gauge} and the first term of L_{gauge/psi}

By: man

man — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:43:44 +0000

Man, you need a life…and by that I really mean…Man, you need a wife…

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:58:54 +0000

Someday, Douglas, you’ll be finding typos in equations like this one. But you’re right, the physics behind it is truly amazing!

By: Douglas

Douglas — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:55:07 +0000

As an undergraduate, I have to say that this post was especially exciting for all the physics it promises I’ll learn in graduate school. Oh my god, oh my god!