High-energy detectors might find 'unparticles'
'Stuff' not made of particles could be seen soon, in theory.
The universe could be filled with stranger stuff than anything physicists have ever seen: stuff that, unlike all known matter, isn't made of particles. Howard Georgi of Harvard University calls it 'unparticle stuff'.
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This news item seems to have been condensed to the point of utter incomprehensibility. A related news summary in physorg.com manages to pass the message through rather better. In fact, while not being a physicist, I was able to follow the original article much more easily than the posted news story.
Posted by: Christos Dimitrakakis | June 14, 2007 10:28 PM
the ancients spoke of fire,water and earth as elements . but if we consider fire as the quantum of a quality like radiance then it would be analogous to photon ,though not the same.
similarly higgs boson could be identified with the quality of solidity since it is the vector for mass in the universe.
the new unparticle stuff would fill in the space for liquidity in universe.
earlier some high particle studies had pointed to this possibility of liquidity at the depths of universe.
the experiment on quark-gluon plasma actually revealed a liquid like behaviour that was not predicted by the theory at that energy level ,prompting scientists to attribute the synchronised ,coherent wave like behaviour to this new liquidity ,thus replacing eather.
this unparticle stuff could be analogous to this liquidity vector or principle/quality,like water as the ancients called this quality element
thanks
Posted by: sureshkumar.s | June 19, 2007 05:11 AM