Oh, that one. We neutrinos don't discuss them much; they're a tad too eccentric, even for us.
I will tell you that they're really not particularly welcome among decent particles, as you can see from the diagram below.
Posted on 07/27/2004 12:34:34 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Had to read your post a couple of times to absorb that concept. Interesting, but I don't understand how empty space has toplogy to begin with.
Topology is, first and foremost, the study of space(s), and how they can be mapped one to one. Whether they are open/closed, bounded/unbounded, compact/complex.
Is it alright for me to say: 'The West must do somthing about it....'?
As opposed to the subject studied in school, a topology is a structure imputed to a lattice (such as the Boolean lattice of sets ordered by inclusion).
To have a topology,therefore, one has to have a set of alements first, and that is what question was about.
Indeed, if space is empty, it cannot have a nontrivial topology.
Most of us, quarks, are strange...
Mussels have beards.
Thanks for explaining it. Even though I got an A, you explained it much better than my college professor did.
Oh, that one. We neutrinos don't discuss them much; they're a tad too eccentric, even for us.
I will tell you that they're really not particularly welcome among decent particles, as you can see from the diagram below.
By the way, I don't see what's so odd about that omega character. Looks alot like a regular old antiproton to me (about the right mass and charge), but then, I'm not familiar with all these characters.
What is that?
Lethargic thread placemarker.
Please don't let my remark stop you from entertaining provocative ideas: rigor is important only after you have a vision. And yours has a ring to it...
We're all gonna die because of the entropic heat-death of the universe represented, in a macroscopic sense, by (delta)S = Q/T where Q is heat added to a thermodynamic system during a reversible process at absolute temperature T !!!!
Welcome to the science threads. Nice debut.
Neutrino: Probably the most famous of all invented particles, Pauli came up with this so as to explain beta decay in a manner consistent with the conservation of energy
Omega-Minus: When Gell-Mann developed the eight-fold way model to classify particles, he predicted the existence of this particle, much the same way Mendeleev predicted new elements when he created the periodic table. Its discovery shortly afterwards helped to cement the eight-fold way as the classification system for elementary particles.
Pi-meson: Yuakawa explained how the atom was held together by "inventing" this particle, which carries the strong force between protons and neutrons. It was shortly afterwards discovered by Powell and his team.
Oh, you know, rye, barley, sometimes ginger :-)
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