One of the advantages of being an experimental particle physicist is that we somehow enjoy certain flexibility in our work schedule. It is not unusual at all to work very long hours even during weekends for extended periods of time (graduate students can tell you all about it), or to literally run on coffee (or anything that has caffeine) because you haven’t slept more than a few hours in a few days. But once in a while, if you are lucky enough to have had cool supervisors like I have, it is possible to escape for an extended weekend without feeling too much guilt.
I did so last weekend, I went to the Czech Republic to attend the wedding of one of my best friends. While celebrating in the beautiful countryside, where the wedding took place, and after a couple of Meruňkovice shots, we started planning our two-day visit to Prague. Being Czech and a very good particle physicist, my friend knew something that I was not aware of. He told me that Albert Einstein had taught in the German University in Prague. In fact, he later showed me a memorial plaque outside a house in Prague’s Old Town Square that reads: “Here in this salon of Mrs Berta Fanta, Albert Einstein, Professor at Prague University in 1911 to 1912, founder of the theory of relativity, Nobel Prize Winner, played the violin and met his friends, famous writers, Max Brod and Franz Kafka.”
At any modern particle collider, where gravity effects are negligible, special relativity is the pain quotidien. However, at the LHC, there are many theories that predict scenarios where gravitational effects are important, in which case we would be able to learn more about the old mystery of how to reconcile vastly tested Einstein’s general relativity with quantum mechanics. Most of these scenarios (string-theory inspired) involve the presence of more than two additional space dimensions in our Universe, not large enough to solve the sock in the dryer mystery, but rather tiny, on the order of a millionth of a meter or smaller. The leakage of the gravitational field in the extra volume could justify gravity’s marked weakness compared to the rest of the forces in Nature. At the CMS experiment we are preparing to test such scenarios among other interesting physics.
In Prague, good old Al found – in his own words – “the necessary composure to give the basic thought of the general theory of relativity (1908) step by step a more definite shape…” , and I can certainly understand why now. Not that I will ever experience the enlightenment Einstein found there, but after visiting beautiful Prague and enjoying the warmth of its wonderful people and its exciting culture, I feel energized, very energized, ready to continue our extraordinary adventure at the LHC, maybe a quantum-gravitational one!
Edgar F. Carrera (Boston University)
The reconciliation of Einsteinian relativity with quantum mechanics may be found in CRQT physics.
The atom’s RQT (relative quantum topological) data point imaging function is built by combination of the relativistic Einstein-Lorenz transform functions for time, mass, and energy with the workon quantized electromagnetic wave equations for frequency and wavelength. The atom labeled psi (Z) pulsates at the frequency {Nhu=e/h} by cycles of {e=m(c^2)} transformation of nuclear surface mass to forcons with joule values, followed by nuclear force absorption. This radiation process is limited only by spacetime boundaries of {Gravity-Time}, where gravity is the force binding space to psi, forming the GT integral atomic wavefunction. The expression is defined as the series expansion differential of nuclear output rates with quantum symmetry numbers assigned along the progression to give topology to the solutions.
Next, the correlation function for the manifold of internal heat capacity particle 3D functions condensed due to radial force dilution is extracted; by rearranging the total internal momentum function to the photon gain rule and integrating it for GT limits. This produces a series of 26 topological waveparticle functions of five classes; {+Positron, Workon, Thermon, -Electromagneton, Magnemedon}, each the 3D data image of a type of energy intermedon of the 5/2 kT J internal energy cloud, accounting for all of them.
Those values intersect the sizes of the fundamental physical constants: h, h-bar, delta, nuclear magneton, beta magneton, k (series). They quantize nuclear dynamics by acting as fulcrum particles. The result is the picoyoctometric, 3D, interactive video atomic model data imaging function, responsive to keyboard input of virtual photon gain events by relativistic, quantized shifts of electron, force, and energy field states and positions.
Now an ideal reconciliation of the Einsteinian relativity functions and sense with electromagnetic and thermal quantum mechanics is found, with plain quantitative results for any example in any parameter.
Images of the h-bar magnetic energy waveparticle of ~175 picoyoctometers are available online at http://www.symmecon.com with the complete RQT atomic modeling guide titled The Crystalon Door, copyright TXu1-266-788. TCD conforms to the unopposed motion of disclosure in U.S. District (NM) Court of 04/02/2001 titled The Solution to the Equation of Schrodinger.
(C) 2009, Dale B. Ritter, B.A.
Hi Dale, thanks for reading this post and for your comment. All what you have said in it is very fuzzy to me though. I will be more than happy, however, to read a published article on this topic in a refereed physics journal if you point me to it. Thanks!