Friday, May 30, 2014

Getting excited for Vitaly

Wired: More than 40 years after a Soviet nuclear physicist proposed an outlandish theory that trios of particles can arrange themselves in an infinite nesting-doll configuration, experimentalists have reported strong evidence that this bizarre state of matter is real.
In 1970, Vitaly Efimov was manipulating the equations of quantum mechanics in an attempt to calculate the behavior of sets of three particles, such as the protons and neutrons that populate atomic nuclei, when he discovered a law that pertained not only to nuclear ingredients but also, under the right conditions, to any trio of particles in nature.

And he has a good name, the Efimov condition, we can call it. I am looking for data and equations as we speak.

Anyway, the linked to the Hoyle state, another state opf the triangular nature of three partices. I am just now looking into it. That led to this mathematical 'trick':
Instead, Meissner's group combined the theory with numerical methods often used to describe the interaction of individual quarks via the strong force. This approach breaks down space and time into discrete chunks, constraining particles to exist only at the vertices of a space–time lattice and so radically simplifying the possible evolution of the particle system. 

Why not think using discrete chunks is something the vacuum might very well do?  That is what the vacuum spectral management is all about. It this nagging thing which physicists, everything must integrate on a flat space. Somehow they lose sight of the fact that flat space, continuous force fields is a human model, having little to do with the vacuum.

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