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Particle Physics Questions of the 21st Century
12 years ago
Neutrinos: why do they have mass? Do they have Dirac or Majorana masses? (Do they exhibit CP violation? If so, why?) What are the properties of their oscillations?
Supersymmetry (SUSY): is this a real thing, or is just fantasy? Are there five Higgs bosons and a table of Sparticles?
Dark Matter: we know they are WIMPs. Are they SUSY particles? If not, what are they? This will probably lead to a new particle.
Color/flavor: what are these seemingly arbitrary quantities?
Matter: why are there three generations?
Matter: it is only created in matter-antimatter pairs, so why is there so much matter in the universe?
Dark energy: what is this, really, and why are our predictions of its value using quantum theory off by 120 orders of magnitude?
Constants: how do they get their value? Do they evolve?
Orvayn: who is this loser and why is he writing journals instead of Knot Theory?
Supersymmetry (SUSY): is this a real thing, or is just fantasy? Are there five Higgs bosons and a table of Sparticles?
Dark Matter: we know they are WIMPs. Are they SUSY particles? If not, what are they? This will probably lead to a new particle.
Color/flavor: what are these seemingly arbitrary quantities?
Matter: why are there three generations?
Matter: it is only created in matter-antimatter pairs, so why is there so much matter in the universe?
Dark energy: what is this, really, and why are our predictions of its value using quantum theory off by 120 orders of magnitude?
Constants: how do they get their value? Do they evolve?
Orvayn: who is this loser and why is he writing journals instead of Knot Theory?
...also, yeah, this list is very technical, so unless you've taken particle physics or worked in a lab, there's only a few questions that might make much sense. This journal is more for me--I'm hoping that sometime during my life, some of these will be solve.
Their mass is nothing but problematic--it's not large enough for neutrinos to be dark matter. If only it were...
funny you mention color/flavor.
Did you know that there are experiments that allow the suspicion that effects of quantum physics take effect in the process of smelling?
For example:
Usually it is assumed that smell works with the shape of the molecules -> different shaped receptors -> bla bla blubb blubb.
So they took a molecule and replaced the hydrogen in it with deuterium, changing so nothing but the mass of the molecule,
but it did smell different. So they conjecture Quantum effects causing this. Ofcourse this is far from being proven now,
but an interesting idea to think contrary to common belive that these effects affect even macroscopic processes.
Well, physics, science, math, science physics physics.
That explains it, right?