Tag Archives: quantum field theory

Physicists test if they can load antimatter on a truck

Posted on July 20, 2025 by

Physicists in Europe have reported that it’s possible to transport charged particles on a truck for four hours without disturbing them in any way. This seemingly run-of-the-mill announcement, reported in Nature on May 14, actually contains within its details the … Continue reading →

Posted in Scicomm | Tagged antimatter, Antimatter Factory, BASE-STEP Penning trap, CERN, CP violation, CPT symmetry, Large Hadron Collider, liquid helium, Penning trap, quantum field theory | Comments Off

‘No string theorists in non-elite institutions’

Posted on November 14, 2013 by

Shiraz Naval Minwalla, a professor of theoretical physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, won the New Horizons in Physics Prize for 2013 on November 5. The prize – which recognizes ‘promising researchers’ and comes with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AdS/CFT correspondence, Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Infosys Foundation Prize, New Horizons in Physics Prize, quantum field theory, Shiraz Minwalla, string theory, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Comments Off

On meson decay-modes in studying CP violation

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

In particle physics, CPT symmetry is an attribute of the universe that is held as fundamentally true by quantum field theory (QFT). It states that the laws of physics should not be changed and the opposite of all allowed motions … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrei Sakharov, antimatter, B-meson, BaBar experiment, baryogenesis, Belle Experiment, CP-symmetry violation, CPT theorem, flavor oscillations, George Sudarshan, James Cronin, Kaons, mesons, Murray Gell-Mann, Pions, proton decay, quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, Robert Marshak, Standard Model of particle physics, Val Fitch | Comments Off

Assuming this universe…

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

Accomplished physicists I have met or spoken with in the last four months professed little agreement over which parts of physics were set-in-stone and which parts simply largely-corroborated hypotheses. Here are some of them, with a short description of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bosons, compactification of extra dimensions, gluons, Millennium Prize, non-perturbative string theory, quantum chromodynamics, quantum field theory, Yang-Mills theory | Comments Off

The philosophies in physics

Posted on July 1, 2012 by

As a big week for physics comes up–a July 4 update by CERN on the search for the Higgs boson followed by ICHEP ’12 at Melbourne–I feel really anxious as a small-time proto-journalist and particle-physics-enthusiast. If CERN announces the discovery … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged classical mechanics, deterministic causality, eigenstate, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Higgs mechanism, philosophy of physics, probability, quantum field theory, Quantum mechanics, Standard Model, universe | Comments Off