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AperspectiveofParticlephysics visavisHinduphilosophy
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INDEX
1. TheBuildingBlocksofaDewDrop 04 2. Quarks,Leptons,andBosons 05 3. CosmicRays 06 4. AStrangeNewParticle-TheLambda 06 5. CosmicRays 07 6. QuarkModel 07 7. DiscoveryofNewQuark:TheUpsilon 08 8. BuildingBlocksin1977 08 9. DiscoveryofaNewQuark:bQuark 09 10. BottomtoTop 10 11. Antimatter 10 12. What'sSpecialaboutAntimatter 11 13. BaryonicAsymmetry 12 14. Sakharovconditions 13 15. Baryonnumberviolation 14 16. CP-symmetryviolation 15&16 17. Interactionsoutofthermalequilibrium 17 18. Searchingfortopquark 18 19. Discoveryoftopquarkandfurtherquestions 18 20. Theundiscovered 19 21. Whyistheremass? 19 22. Higgsbosons/HiggsField 20 23. MorequestionswithHiggsBoson 20 24. Whatwouldtheworldlooklikewithout
21 25. UnicationTheories 21 26. Speculationsonothertypesofbuildingblocks 22&23 27. Consciousness&QM 24&25 28. Reality 26 29. deBroglie-Bohmtheory 27 30. Omni-potentObserver 28 31. Newwindowstotheparticleworld-Neutrinos 28 S.No. PageNo. PART-A (ParticlePhysics) S.No. PageNo. PART-A (ParticlePhysics)
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32. Neutrinosfromtheatmosphereshift
29 33. StringTheory 30 34. Constraints 31 35. BestCandidate 32 36. Fundamentals 32 37. Dimensions 33 38. DualitiesandM-theory 34 39. S-Duality 35 40. T-Duality 36 41. UnicationofSuperstringtheories 37 42. TypeIIA 38 43. TypeIIstringtheory 39 44. TypeIIAstringtheory 40 45. TypeIIBstringtheory 41 S.No. PageNo. PART-A (ParticlePhysics) S.No. PageNo. PART-B (PhilosophicalContent)
INDEX
1. ModernPhysicsandHinduPhilosophy 42 2. BrahmaSatyam,JagatMithya 43 3. Wavefunction/Superposition/Entanglement 44 4. CruxofHinduPhilosophy 45 5. BirthoftheUniverse/Vayupuranam 46 6. TheoryofRelativity&Gita 47 7. NeutrinoOscillations 48 8. Furtherquestions 49 9. BuildingblocksasperTheHinduphilosophy 49 10. TheConnection 50 11. PropertiesofOmkara 50,51&52
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TheBuildingBlocksofaDewDrop
Adewdropismadeupofmanymoleculesofwater(1021orabilliontrillion).Each moleculeismadeofanoxygenatomandtwohydrogenatoms(H2O).Atthestartofthe 20thcentury,atomswerethesmallestknownbuildingblocksofmatter. Eachatomconsistsofanucleussurroundedbyelectrons.Electronsareleptonsthatare boundtothenucleusbyphotons,whicharebosons.Thenucleusofahydrogenatomis justasingleproton.Protonsconsistofthreequarks.Intheproton,gluonsholdthe quarkstogetherjustasphotonsholdtheelectrontothenucleusintheatom
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Quarks,Leptons,andBosons
Physicistscurrentlybelievetherearethreetypesofbasicbuildingblocksofmatter:quarks,leptons, andbosons.Quarksandleptonsmakeupeverydaymatter,whichisheldtogetherbybosons.Each bosonisassociatedwithaforce.Thephoton,theunitoftheelectromagneticforce,holdsthe electrontothenucleusintheatom.Thewaytheseparticlescombinedictatesthestructureof matter. Elementary particles are particles with no measurable internal structure; that is, it is unknown whethertheyarecomposedofotherparticles.Theyarethefundamentalobjectsofquantumeld
classiedaccordingtotheirspin.Fermionshavehalf-integerspinwhilebosonshaveintegerspin.All theparticlesoftheStandardModelhavebeenexperimentallyobserved,recentlyincludingthe Higgsbosonin2012.Manyotherhypotheticalelementaryparticles,suchasthegraviton,havebeen proposed,butnotobservedexperimentally.
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CosmicRays
Earlyparticlephysicistsstudiedcosmicrays,anaturallyoccurringstreamofhighenergyparticles fromouterspace.Cosmicraysweretherstsourceofunstable,short-livedparticles.Later,physicists discoveredthatmostofthebuildingblocksofmatterliveforsoshortatimethatwedonotseethem ineverydaymatter.Oneoftheunstableparticlestheyfoundwasthemuon(µ),alepton. Oneparticlediscoveredincosmicrayswasthelambda,identiedbyparticletracksformingthe GreeksymbolLambdainthecloudchamber.Thelambdahasnoelectricchargesoitleavesnotrace untilitdecaysintoonepositivelyandonenegativelychargedparticle.TheyleaveaLambdapattern (upsidedownV),asseenontheright.Lambdasweretherstofagroupofparticlescalled"Strange" becausetheydecayedmoreslowlythanexpected.
AStrangeNewParticle-TheLambda
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CosmicRays
Newtechnologyintheearly1960sallowedphysiciststobuildacceleratorstocreatemanynew particlesbyshootingenergeticparticlesattargets.Theseparticleswereshort-livedanddecayed quicklyintoospringparticles.Withevenhigherenergyaccelerators,physicistsfoundanexotic arrayofnewparticles.Theydevelopedtheoriestoexplainhowalltheparticlesinthis"ParticleZoo" couldbemadefromafewbasicbuildingblocks. In1964,physicistsproposedquarksasthebuildingblocksofmanyoftheparticlesinthe"Particle Zoo."Inthistheoryalleverydayobjects,suchasourbodiesandthehomeswelivein,couldbemade fromthreebasicparticles:upanddownquarksandelectrons.AtthattimetheQuarkModelwasone
QuarkModel
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DiscoveryofNewQuark:TheUpsilon
Newacceleratorswithhigherenergiessmashedbeamsofparticlesintoxedtargetstoproduce short-lived particles with high masses. One of these particles, the upsilon, had properties that impliedthatitcouldnotbemadeoftheknownfourquarks:up,down,strangeandcharm.Physicists concludedthattheupsilonwasmadeofanewquark,thebottomquark,anditsantiquark. Byearly1977,twocompletegenerationsofparticleshadbeendiscovered.Withthediscoveryofthe upsilonthatsummer,physicistssawthepossibilityofathirdgenerationofparticles.
BuildingBlocksin1977
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DiscoveryofaNewQuark:bQuark
Newacceleratorswithhigherenergiessmashedbeamsofparticlesintoxedtargetstoproduce short-lived particles with high masses. One of these particles, the upsilon, had properties that impliedthatitcouldnotbemadeoftheknownfourquarks:up,down,strangeandcharm.Physicists concludedthattheupsilonwasmadeofanewquark,thebottomquark,anditsantiquark.Leon Lederman, the second director of Fermilab, headed this 1977 experiment. Today there are acceleratorsdedicatedtotheproductionofupsilonsandstudiesofthebottomquark.
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BottomtoTop
Thequarkscomeinthreegenerationswiththemassincreasingwitheachgeneration.Physicistshad notseenevidenceofthetopquarkinexistingaccelerators,buttheyknewthatifitweremuch heavierthanthebottomquark,theywouldneedfarmoreenergeticcollisionstoproduceit. Foreveryquarkandlepton,physicistshavediscoveredacorrespondingantiparticle.Theseparticles are referred to as antimatter. Antimatter was rst observed in decays of radioactive nuclei. Antiprotons are composed of two antiup quarks and one antidown quark. Antihydrogen (an antiprotonandapositron)wascreatedattheEuropeanlaboratory,CERN,andatFermilabin1996.
Antimatter
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What'sSpecialaboutAntimatter
Yougetmoreenergyformakingnewparticlesbycollidingtheprotonsandantiprotonsheadon.AttheTevatron'senergybycollidingtheantiquarksinthe antiprotonswiththequarksintheprotons,wemakeabouttentimesmoretopandantitopquarksthanwewouldifwejustusedthequarksinprotons.
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BaryonicAsymmetry
Inphysics,thebaryonasymmetryproblem,alsoknownasthematterasymmetryproblemorthe matter-antimatterasymmetryproblem,istheobservedimbalanceinbaryonicmatter(thetypeof matterexperiencedineverydaylife)andantibaryonicmatterintheobservableuniverse.Neitherthe standardmodelofparticlephysics,northetheoryofgeneralrelativityprovidesaknownexplanation forwhythisshouldbeso,anditisanaturalassumptionthattheuniverseisneutralwithallconserved charges.TheBigBangshouldhaveproducedequalamountsofmatterandantimatter.Sincethis doesnotseemtohavebeenthecase,itislikelysomephysicallawsmusthaveacteddierentlyordid notexistformatterandantimatter.Severalcompetinghypothesesexisttoexplaintheimbalanceof matterandantimatterthatresultedinbaryogenesis.However,thereisasofyetnoconsensus theorytoexplainthephenomenon.Asremarkedina2012researchpaper,"Theoriginofmatter remainsoneofthegreatmysteriesinphysics."
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Sakharovconditions
In1967,AndreiSakharovproposedasetofthreenecessaryconditionsthatabaryon-generatinginteractionmustsatisfytoproducematterandantimatterat dierentrates.TheseconditionswereinspiredbytherecentdiscoveriesofthecosmicbackgroundradiationandCPviolationintheneutralkaonsystem.The threenecessary"Sakharovconditions"are:
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Baryonnumberviolation
Baryonnumberviolationisobviouslyanecessaryconditiontoproduceanexcessofbaryonsover anti-baryons.ButC-symmetryviolationisalsoneededsothattheinteractionswhichproducemore baryonsthananti-baryonswillnotbecounterbalancedbyinteractionswhichproducemoreanti- baryons than baryons. CP-symmetry violation is similarly required because otherwise equal numbersofleft-handedbaryonsandright-handedanti-baryonswouldbeproduced,aswellas equalnumbersofleft-handedanti-baryonsandright-handedbaryons.Finally,theinteractionsmust beoutofthermalequilibrium,sinceotherwiseCPTsymmetrywouldassurecompensationbetween processesincreasinganddecreasingthebaryonnumber. Currently,thereisnoexperimentalevidenceofparticleinteractionswheretheconservationof baryonnumberisbrokenperturbatively:thiswouldappeartosuggestthatallobservedparticle reactionshaveequalbaryonnumberbeforeandafter.
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CP-symmetryviolation
Thesecondconditionforgeneratingbaryonasymmetry-violationofcharge-paritysymmetry-s thataprocessisabletohappenatadierentratetoitsantimattercounterpart. IntheStandardModel,CPviolationappearsasacomplexphaseinthequarkmixingmatrixofthe weakinteraction.Theremayalsobeanon-zeroCP-violatingphaseintheneutrinomixingmatrix, butthisiscurrentlyunmeasured. DuetoCPTsymmetry,violationofCPsymmetrydemandsviolationoftimeinversionsymmetry,orT- symmetry.DespitetheallowanceforCPviolationintheStandardModel,itisinsucienttoaccount fortheobservedbaryonasymmetryoftheuniversegiventhelimitsonbaryonnumberviolation, meaningthatbeyond-StandardModelsourcesareneeded.
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CP-symmetryviolation
ApossiblenewsourceofCPviolationwasfoundattheLargeHadronCollider(LHC)bytheLHCb collaboration. Theexperimentanalysedthedecaysoftwoparticles,thebottomLambda(b0)anditsantiparticle, andcomparedthedistributionsofdecayproducts.Thedatashowedanasymmetryofupto20%of CP-violationsensitivequantities,implyingabreakingofCP-symmetry.Thisanalysiswillneedtobe conrmedbymoredatafromsubsequentrunsoftheLHC.
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Interactionsoutofthermalequilibrium
Intheout-of-equilibriumdecayscenario,thelastconditionstatesthattherateofareaction whichgeneratesbaryon-asymmetrymustbelessthantherateofexpansionoftheuniverse.In thissituationtheparticlesandtheircorrespondingantiparticlesdonotachievethermalequilibrium duetorapidexpansiondecreasingtheoccurrenceofpair-annihilation.
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Searchingfortopquark
Thesearchfortopisakintolookingforneedlesinahaystack.Outofevery trillionproton-antiprotoncollisions,abouttentop-antitopquarkpairsare produced.Physicistsmustsearchoutthesedesirableevents Thetopquarkhadamassmuchlargerthanphysicistshadexpectedwhen the bottom quark was discovered. At the end of the search, top was determinedtohaveamasssimilartothatofagoldatom-anenormous massforafundamentalparticle.
NeedlesinaHaystack
Discoveryoftopquarkandfurtherquestions
Physicistsbelievetheyhavefoundallthequarks.However,thediscovery
thantheotherquarks.Whyistopsomassive?Whydoesanyfundamental particlehavemass?Physicistsbelievetheanswertothesequestionsis connectedwiththeinteractionsthatgovernthebehaviorofparticles.
LessonslearntfromtheDiscoveryofTopQuark
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Theundiscovered Whyistheremass?
Stars,people,andinsectsallhavemassbecausetheparticlestheyare madeofhavemass.But,notalltypesofparticleshavemass.Whydosome havemassandothersdon't?Whydoesatopquarkhaveabout40timesas muchmassasabottomquark?
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Higgsbosons/HiggsField
TheHiggseldprovidesmasstoquarksandotherelementaryparticles thatarethebuildingblocksofmatter.Thephotonandthegluondonot interactwiththeHiggseld,andhencetheyhavenomass.Whetherthe Higgseldistheoriginofthemassofdarkmatterorthetinymassofthe threeknowntypesofneutrinosisnotyetknown. TheHiggsbosonisaparticlethathelpstransmitthemass-givingHiggs eld, similar to the way a particle of light, the photon, transmits the electromagneticeld.
MorequestionswithHiggsBoson
ScientistsstillhavemuchtolearnabouttheHiggsboson:howitrelatesto
whetherthereismorethanonetypeofHiggsboson.?Oneparticular model of particle interactions, known as Supersymmetry, predicts the existenceofatleastvetypesofHiggsbosons.
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WhatwouldtheworldlooklikewithouttheHiggsbosonorasimilarparticle?
Wewouldn'trecognizetheworld.WithouttheHiggsbosonorsomethinglikeitgivingmasstothe basicbuildingblocksofmatter,electronswouldzipaboutatthespeedoflight.Theywouldnotform unionswithprotonsorotherwould-benucleitomakeatoms.Withoutatoms,therewouldbeno chemicalreactions,nomolecules,noordinarymatterasweknowitandnotemplateforlife.We wouldnotexist. Electricity and magnetism are dierent manifestation of a unied electromagnetic force. Electromagnetism,gravityandthenuclearforcesmaybepartsofasingleunedforcemaybeparts
describethisuniedforceandmakepredictionswhichcanbetestedwiththeTevatron.
UnicationTheories
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Speculationsonothertypesofbuildingblocks
Althoughtherearereasonstobelievethattherearenomoresetsofquarksandleptons,theorists speculatethattheremaybeothertypesofbuildingblocks,whichmaypartlyaccountforthedark matterimpliedbyastrophysicalobservations.Thispoorlyunderstoodmatterexertsgravitational forcesandmanipulatesgalaxies.Itwilltakeearth-basedacceleratorexperimentstoidentifyits fabric.
Theforces
Scientistsdistinguishfourelementarytypesofforcesactingamongparticles:strong,weak,electromagneticandgravitationalforce.
throughouttheuniverse.
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Eachforcehasitsowncharacteristicbosons:
Physicistsexpectthatthegravitationalforcemayalsobeassociatedwithabosonparticle.Namedthegraviton,thishypotheticalbosonisextremelyhardto
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Consciousness&QM
Observation?Observer
AccordingtooneQMinterpretation,withoutobservation,wecannotcreatematteroutofwaves.Doesitmeanthatonlyhumanscanobserve?Whatabout non-livingthingslikemeasuringinstruments.?Howcanweconcludethecollapseishappeningonlybecauseofourobserving?Isthereanomnipresentand all-pervadingconscious'observer',whoiscollapsingthewavesforusandmakingusfeelthatwearelivingintherealworld?Ifthatisso,whythis'omni-present
Hence,theevidentimportanceofthepartplayedbyconsciousnessinquantummechanics.Anumberofscientistshadpostulatedthattheremustbea cosmicconsciousnesspervadingtheuniverse;objectsspringintoexistencewhenmeasurementsaremade,measurementswhicharemadebyconscious beings,whichimpliesthattheremustbecosmicconsciousnessthatpervadestheuniversedeterminingwhichstatewearein-somescientists,e.g.,Nobel laureateEugeneWigner,hadarguedthatthisisproofoftheexistenceofGodorsomecosmicconsciousness.Wignerhadremarkedthatitwasnotpossibleto formulatethelawsofquantumtheoryinafullyconsistentwaywithoutreferencetoconsciousness.
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Reality
Aninterpretationofquantummechanicsisanattempttoexplainhowthemathematicaltheoryof quantum mechanics "corresponds" to reality. Although quantum mechanics has held up to rigorousandextremelyprecisetestsinanextraordinarilybroadrangeofexperiments(notone predictionfromquantummechanicsisfoundtobecontradictedbyexperiments),thereexista numberofcontendingschoolsofthoughtovertheirinterpretation.Theseviewsoninterpretation dieronsuchfundamentalquestionsaswhetherquantummechanicsisdeterministicorrandom, which elements of quantum mechanics can be considered "real", and what is the nature of measurement,amongothermatters.
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deBroglie-Bohmtheory
ThedeBroglie-Bohmtheory,alsoknownasthepilotwavetheory,Bohmianmechanics,Bohm's interpretation,andthecausalinterpretation,isaninterpretationofquantummechanics.Inaddition to a wavefunction on the space of all possible congurations, it also postulates an actual congurationthatexistsevenwhenunobserved.Theevolutionovertimeoftheconguration (thatis,thepositionsofallparticlesorthecongurationofallelds)isdenedbythewavefunction byaguidingequation.TheevolutionofthewavefunctionovertimeisgivenbytheSchrödinger equation.ThetheoryisnamedafterLouisdeBroglie(1892-1987)andDavidBohm(1917-1992). Thetheoryisdeterministicandexplicitlynonlocal:thevelocityofanyoneparticledependsonthe valueoftheguidingequation,whichdependsonthecongurationofthesystemgivenbyitswave function;thelatterdependsontheboundaryconditionsofthesystem,which,inprinciple,maybe theentireuniverse.
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Omni-potentObserver
Itisevidentthatconsciousnessisthecentralplayerintheschemeofthingsinnature.Asmentionedearlierifitweretobeanomni-presentobserver,THAT shouldbeindependentoftime.Beyondpast,presentandfutureincludingwhentherewasnotime.AncientHindutextshavedealtaboutitextensivelyand concludedas'Omtatsat'.Meaningitexists.ThatisOmorOmkaram.ThecentralthemeoftheVedas,UpanishadsistherealizationofOmwhichisall pervadingandknower,theultimate,andtheTruth. Neutrinos,whichcomeinthreeavours,changefromoneavourtoanother.Thisdiscoveryisamajormilestoneinparticlephysicsasitgivesaclearevidence
(electron,muon,ortau)canlaterbemeasuredtohaveadierentavor. Neutrinooscillationsandrelatedissuessuchasnatureoftheneutrino,neutrinomassesandpossibilityofCharge-Parity(CP)violationamongleptonsare todaywidelypursuedresearchareasinparticlephysics.
Newwindowstotheparticleworld-Neutrinos
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Neutrinosfromtheatmosphereshiftbetweentwoidentities.
Thereisevidencefortheconversionofelectron-neutrinos( )fromtheSunintomuon-ortau-
νe
neutrinos(
).Theexperimentssolvedthemysterybehindthemissingtwo-hirdsofthesolar-
νμ ντ
neutrinos during the theoretical calculations on Earth. The answer was - neutrinos changed identities. ThediscoveryclearlymeantthattheSMwasnolongeracceptableasthecompletetheoryofthe fundamental constituents of the universe. The results transformed the understanding of the innermostworkingsofmatter,thusopeningupnovelavenuesofunderstandinguniverse.
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StringTheory
StringtheoryisoneofthemostpromisingcandidatesforbridgingthegapbetweenQFTand generalrelativitytheorybysupplyingauniedtheoryofall-naturalforces,includinggravitation. Thebasicideaofstringtheoryisnottotakeparticlesasfundamentalobjectsbutstringsthatarevery smallbutextendedinonedimension.Thisassumptionhasthepivotalconsequencethatstrings interactonanextendeddistanceandnotatapoint.Thisdierencebetweenstringtheoryand standard QFT is essential because it is the reason why string theory also encompasses the gravitationalforcewhichisverydiculttodealwithintheframeworkofQFT.
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Constraints
Oneofthechallengesofstringtheoryisthatthefulltheorydoesnothaveasatisfactorydenitionin allcircumstances.Anotherissueisthatthetheoryisthoughttodescribeanenormouslandscapeof possibleuniverses!!! Reservationsaboutstringtheoryaremostlyduetothelackoftestabilitysinceitseemsthatthereare noempiricalconsequenceswhichcouldbetestedbythemethodswhichare,atleastuptonow, availabletous.Thereasonforthisproblemisthatthelengthscaleofstringsisintheaveragethe same as the one of quantum gravity, namely the Planck length of approximately 1033 centimeterswhichliesfarbeyondtheaccessibilityoffeasibleparticleexperiments.Butthereare alsootherpeculiarfeaturesofstringtheorywhichmightbehardtoswallow.Oneofthemisthefact thatstringtheoryimpliesthatspace-timehas10,11oreven26dimensions.
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BestCandidate
Becausestringtheorypotentiallyprovidesaunieddescriptionofgravityandparticlephysics,itisacandidateforatheoryofeverything,aself-contained mathematicalmodelthatdescribesallfundamentalforcesandformsofmatter. Amongthenumerousalternativeproposalsforreconcilingquantumphysicsandgeneralrelativitytheory,stringtheoryisstillthebestcandidate. Thefundamentalobjectsofstringtheoryareopenandclosedstrings.Stringtheorydescribeshowstringspropagate throughspaceandinteractwitheachother.Inagivenversionofstringtheory,thereisonlyonekindofstring,which maylooklikeasmalllooporsegmentofordinarystring,anditcanvibrateindierentways.Ondistancescaleslarger thanthestringscale,astringwilllookjustlikeanordinaryparticle,withitsmass,charge,andotherproperties determinedbythevibrationalstateofthestring.Inthisway,allofthedierentelementaryparticlesmaybeviewedas vibratingstrings.Instringtheory,oneofthevibrationalstatesofthestringgivesrisetothegraviton,aquantum mechanicalparticlethatcarriesgravitationalforce.Thus,stringtheoryisatheoryofquantumgravity.
Fundamentals
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Dimensions
Ineverydaylife,therearethreefamiliardimensionsofspace:height,widthandlength.Einstein'sgeneraltheoryofrelativitytreatstimeasadimensiononpar withthethreespatialdimensions;ingeneralrelativity,spaceandtimearenotmodeledasseparateentitiesbutareinsteaduniedtoafour-dimensional spacetime.Inthisframework,thephenomenonofgravityisviewedasaconsequenceofthegeometryofspacetime. Onenotablefeatureofstringtheoriesisthatthesetheoriesrequireextradimensionsofspacetimefortheirmathematicalconsistency.Inbosonicstring theory,spacetimeis26-dimensional,whileinsuperstringtheoryitis10-dimensional,andinM-theoryitis11-dimensional.Inordertodescriberealphysical phenomenausingstringtheory,onemustthereforeimaginescenariosinwhichtheseextradimensionswouldnotbeobservedinexperiments. Incompactication,someoftheextradimensionsareassumedto"closeup"onthemselvestoformcircles.
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DualitiesandM-theory
Oneofthemaindevelopmentsofthepastseveraldecadesinstringtheorywasthediscoveryofcertain"dualities",mathematicaltransformationsthatidentify
anontrivialway.Physicistsstudyingstringtheoryhavediscoveredanumberofthesedualitiesbetweendierentversionsofstringtheory,andthishasledto theconjecturethatallconsistentversionsofstringtheoryaresubsumedinasingleframeworkknownasM-theory. Priorto1995,theoristsbelievedthattherewereveconsistentversionsofsuperstringtheory(typeI,typeIIA,typeIIB,andtwoversionsofheteroticstring theory).Thisunderstandingchangedin1995whenEdwardWittensuggestedthatthevetheorieswerejustspeciallimitingcasesofaneleven-dimensional theorycalledM-theory.
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S-Duality
Onenotablefactaboutstringtheoryisthatthedierentversionsofthetheoryallturnouttobe relatedinhighlynontrivialways.Oneoftherelationshipsthatcanexistbetweendierentstring theoriesiscalledS-duality.Thisisarelationshipwhichsaysthatacollectionofstronglyinteracting particlesinonetheorycan,insomecases,beviewedasacollectionofweaklyinteractingparticlesin acompletelydierenttheory.Roughlyspeaking,acollectionofparticlesissaidtobestrongly interactingiftheycombineanddecayoftenandweaklyinteractingiftheydosoinfrequently.TypeI stringtheoryturnsouttobeequivalentbyS-dualitytotheSO(32)heteroticstringtheory.Similarly, typeIIBstringtheoryisrelatedtoitselfinanontrivialwaybyS-duality.
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T-Duality
Another relationship between dierent string theories is T-duality. Here one considers strings propagatingaroundacircularextradimension.T-dualitystatesthatastringpropagatingaround acircleofradiusRisequivalenttoastringpropagatingaroundacircleofradius1/Rinthesense thatallobservablequantitiesinonedescriptionareidentiedwithquantitiesinthedual description.Forexample,astringhasmomentumasitpropagatesaroundacircle,anditcanalso windaroundthecircleoneormoretimes.Thenumberoftimesthestringwindsaroundacircleis calledthewindingnumber.Ifastringhasmomentumpandwindingnumberninonedescription, itwillhavemomentumnandwindingnumberpinthedualdescription.Forexample,typeIIAstring theoryisequivalenttotypeIIBstringtheoryviaT-duality,andthetwoversionsofheteroticstring theoryarealsorelatedbyT-duality.
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UnicationofSuperstringtheories
Intherstsuperstringrevolutionin1984,manyphysiciststurnedtostringtheoryasauniedtheory
accommodatethechiralityofthestandardmodel,anditprovidedatheoryofgravityconsistent withquantumeects.Anotherfeatureofstringtheorythatmanyphysicistsweredrawntointhe 1980sand1990swasitshighdegreeofuniqueness.Inordinaryparticletheories,onecanconsider any collection of elementary particles whose classical behavior is described by an arbitrary Lagrangian.Instringtheory,thepossibilitiesaremuchmoreconstrained:bythe1990s,physicists hadarguedthattherewereonlyveconsistentsupersymmetricversionsofthetheory.
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TypeIIA
In1987,EricBergshoe,ErginSezgin,andPaulTownsendshowedthateleven-dimensionalsupergravityincludestwo-dimensionalbranes.Intuitively,these
Inami,andKelloggStelleconsideredaparticularcompacticationofeleven-dimensionalsupergravitywithoneofthedimensionscurledupintoacircle.In thissetting,onecanimaginethemembranewrappingaroundthecirculardimension.Iftheradiusofthecircleissucientlysmall,thenthismembranelooks justlikeastringinten-dimensionalspacetime.Infact,Duandhiscollaboratorsshowedthatthisconstructionreproducesexactlythestringsappearingin typeIIAsuperstringtheory. IntheabsenceofanunderstandingofthetruemeaningandstructureofM-theory,WittenhassuggestedthattheMshouldstandfor"magic","mystery",or "membrane"accordingtotaste,andthetruemeaningofthetitleshouldbedecidedwhenamorefundamentalformulationofthetheoryisknown.
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TypeIIstringtheory
Intheoreticalphysics,typeIIstringtheoryisauniedtermthatincludesbothtypeIIAstringsand typeIIBstringstheories.TypeIIstringtheoryaccountsfortwooftheveconsistentsuperstring theoriesintendimensions.Boththeorieshavethemaximalamountofsupersymmetrynamely 32supercharges-intendimensions.Boththeoriesarebasedonorientedclosedstrings.Onthe worldsheet,theydieronlyinthechoiceofGSOprojection.
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TypeIIAstringtheory
Atlowenergies,typeIIAstringtheoryisdescribedbytypeIIAsupergravityintendimensionswhich isanon-chiraltheory(i.e.leftrightsymmetric)with(1,1)d=10supersymmetry;thefactthatthe anomaliesinthistheorycancelisthereforetrivial. Inthe1990sitwasrealizedbyEdwardWitten(buildingonpreviousinsightsbyMichaelDu,Paul Townsend,andothers)thatthelimitoftypeIIAstringtheoryinwhichthestringcouplinggoesto innitybecomesanew11-dimensionaltheorycalledM-theory. ThemathematicaltreatmentoftypeIIAstringtheorybelongstosymplectictopologyandalgebraic geometry,particularlyGromovWitteninvariants.
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TypeIIBstringtheory
Atlowenergies,typeIIBstringtheoryisdescribedbytypeIIBsupergravityintendimensionswhich isachiraltheory(leftrightasymmetric)with(2,0)d=10supersymmetry;thefactthattheanomalies inthistheorycancelisthereforenontrivial. In the 1990s it was realized that type IIB string theory with the string coupling constant g is equivalenttothesametheorywiththecoupling1/g.ThisequivalenceisknownasS-duality. OrientifoldoftypeIIBstringtheoryleadstotypeIstringtheory. ThemathematicaltreatmentoftypeIIBstringtheorybelongstoalgebraicgeometry,specicallythe deformationtheoryofcomplexstructures. In1997JuanMaldacenagavesomeargumentsindicatingthattypeIIBstringtheoryisequivalentto N=4supersymmetricYangMillstheoryinthe'tHooftlimit;itwastherstsuggestionconcerning theAdS/CFTcorrespondence.
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ModernPhysicsandHinduPhilosophy
Thereareamazingsimilaritiesbetweenimplicationsoftheoriesofmodernphysicsandancient HinduphilosophyasexpressedinVedasandUpanishads. ThebasisofHinduphilosophyisthemysticalideaofBrahman.TheBrahmanisusuallydescribedby thewordsNeti,Netimeaning,notthis,notthis!WhenIwentintostudyofphysics,Irealizedthat,as farasknowledgeofultimaterealityisconcerned,physicistsareinexactlysamesituationasthe ancientRishis.Bothcannotdescribeitineverydaylanguage. InMundakUpanishad,knowledgeisdividedintotwoparts:ParaVidyawhichdealswiththeeternal truththatcanleadtoselfrealizationandAparaVidyawhichdealswithknowledgeaboutmaterial world.Underthisclassication,PhysicsmightcomeunderAparaVidya.But,Istartedtobelievethat ModernPhysicsisalsoParaVidya!(perhapswithlittletweakshereandthere)
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BrahmaSatyam,JagatMithya
AnumberofearlypioneersinquantumtheorysuchasBohr,Schrodinger,Heisenbergandlater Bohm,weredeeplyinuencedbyeasternmysticalideas.Firstofall,itwasfoundthattheworldisnot madeoutofrigidrmobjectslikebilliardballsorbricks.Attheatomicandsub-atomiclevel,it consistsoffuzzywavelikeobjectsandlotofemptyspace.So,thesolidnatureofobjectswesee aroundisonlyapparent.Asonegoesdeeperanddeeper,onekeepsonndingvacuumalltheway. ThisremindsoneoftheideasofsunyataandMayaorillusioncoveringthewholeuniverse,asAdi ShankaracharyasaidBrahmaSatyam,JagatMithya.Brahmanistheonlytruth;theworldisafalse illusion.Now,justlikeus,hemusthaveseensolidbodies,rigidwallsandtrees.Ibelieveherealized thatallofthisdisintegratesandthuscannotbefundamentalreality.Thus,becauseofthecovering
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Wavefunction/Superposition/Entanglement
Similarly,inphysics,oneseesonlythematerialobjectsaroundanddoesnotseestrangequantumfuzzyworldunderlyingallthematter.Moreover,the particlesofmodernphysicsarebelievedtobeinsomekindofsuspendedstatedevoidofanyspecicpropertiesuntiltheyaremeasured.Theyareinsome sensebothhereandthereatthesametimeandaredescribedbyawavefunction,asuperpositionofseeminglycontradictoryproperties.Suchadescriptionis verysimilartothedescriptionofBrahmane.g.inIshopanishad:Itmovesanditmovesnot;itisfaranditisnear;itiswithinallthisanditisalsooutsideallthis. ThentheultimateshockofquantumtheorycamewhenBell'stheoremandsubsequentexperimentsprovedtheso-calledentanglementstoberight. Insuchcases,twoormoreatoms,electronsorphotonsdemonstratecorrelatedpropertiesevenatdistanceswherenocommunicationispossiblebetween themduringthegiventime.Thespookyaction.Thesedevelopmentsarethemostimportantdevelopmentsinthehistoryofphysicsandperhapsinthewhole
interactions.Thus,atomsalsoexhibitholisticlikepropertiesandperhapssomeprimitiverelationshiptoconsciousness.Soitisnotpropertosaythatany analysisstartingwithatomsisreductionistandnotholistic.
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CruxofHinduPhilosophy
ThefourMahavakyasexpresssimilarconceptaboutindividualandBrahman. PragnanamBrahman AitareyaUpanishad RigVeda "ConsciousnessisBrahman"( 3.3ofthe ) AyamAtmaBrahman MandukyaUpanishad AtharvaVeda "ThisSelf(Atman)isBrahman"( 1.2ofthe ) TatTvamAsi ChandogyaUpanishad SamaVeda "ThatThouart"( 6.8.7ofthe ) AhamBrahmasmi BrhadaranyakaUpanishad YajurVeda "IamBrahman"( 1.4.10ofthe ). ThusBrahmanispresentineverything.Thismatchesverywellwiththeconceptofmodernphysicsthateverythingismadeoutofthesamefundamental particles.Anotherbasicndingofquantumtheoryistheinvolvementoftheobserverintheobservedthings.Itisimpossibletoseparatetheeectofthe measuringapparatusfromtheobjectmeasured.Detachmentofthetwoisjustnotpossible.Suchanideaabouttheobserverandtheobjectofobservationis alsoemphasizedinUpanishads.Itisbehindtheholisticphilosophyaboutmindandbody
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BirthoftheUniverse/Vayupuranam
Aleadingcurrentmodeloforiginofuniverseassumesthattherewastotalvacuuminthebeginning andtheuniversearosefromaquantumuctuation.Inthiswaysomethingcameoutofnothing.At thattime,itwastotallydarksincelighthadnotemergedfromvacuumyet!Comparethismodelwith thefollowingquotationfromVayupuranaboutoriginofuniverse.Inthebeginning,therewas nothingintheuniverse.TheBrahman(thedivineessence)alonewaseverywhere.TheBrahmanhad neithercolournorscent;itcouldnotbefeltortouched.Ithadnoorigin,nobeginningornoend.The Brahmanwasconstantanditwastheoriginofeverythingthatwasdestinedtobeintheuniverse andtheuniversewasshroudedindarkness.NaradiyaSukta(storyofcreation)alsomentionsthat therewastotaldarknessbeforecreation.
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TheoryofRelativity&Gita
Therearestrangefactsinthetheoryofrelativityalso:Itrequiresthatmeasurementoftimedepends
mentioninHinduscripturesisthatBrahma'stimeisdierentfromours.Whenonehearsabout Arjunlookingatthepast,presentandfutureinthemouthofLordKrishnainVishwaroopDarshan (Ch.11 of BhavadGita), one is reminded of collapse of the space time coordinate system near singularitiesofgeneraltheoryofrelativity.Also,itiswellknownthatHinduscripturescameupwith thecorrectorderofmagnitudeoftheageofuniverseofseveralbillionyears,whenotherreligious systemsinsistedontheagetobeafewthousandyears. ConceptofBrahmanwouldcorrespondtoquantumconcept.
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NeutrinoOscillations
Neutrinooscillationsarisefromaquantummechanicalphenomenonassociatedwiththefactthattheneutrinoshavemass.Forthethreeneutrinosspecies thatweknowtoexist,theprincipleofsuperpositionallows"avour"states,namelyneutrinosthatinteracttoproduceelectrons,muons,ortaus,tobe (orthogonal)combinationsofthreeneutrinostateswithdenitemass.Inotherwords,whenaweakinteractionproducesaavourstate,suchasamuon neutrino,thatstateisamixtureofstateswithdierentmass.Thesestatesevolveatdierentratessothatalatertime,thestatemayacquiresomecomponent
neutrinoiscreatedinoneavorandinteractssometimelaterasanother,istheprimarymanifestationofneutrinooscillations. Theobservationofneutrinooscillationsin1998bytheSuper-Kamiokandeexperiment,establishedthatneutrinoshavenon-zeroandnon-degenerate masses.Aroundthesametime,theSNOexperimentdenitivelyshowedthatelectronneutrinosborninthecoreofthesun,transitiontoamixtureofallthree avors,explainingthefewer-than-expectednumberofelectronneutrinosdetectedonEarth.Thesedevelopmentssharedthe2015NobelPrizeinPhysics"for thediscoveryofneutrinooscillations,whichshowsthatneutrinoshavemass."
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Furtherquestions
Dotheygetmassesfromadierentsourcethanotherparticles(e.g.theHiggsmechanism)? WhatroledoneutrinoshaveintheevolutionoftheUniverse?Aretheythereasonforwhytheuniverseismatterdominated? AsperthetenetsoftheHinduphilosophy'Pranava'issupremeconsciousness. 'Pranava'isalsoknownasOm.Om,AuṃorOmkaraorPranavamisasacredsoundandaspiritualsymbolinHinduism,thatsigniestheessenceoftheultimate reality, consciousness or Atman. It is a syllable that is chanted either independently or before a mantra in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ThesyllableOmisrstmentionedintheUpanishads,themysticaltextsassociatedwiththeVedantaphilosophy.Ithasvariouslybeenassociatedwith conceptsof"cosmicsound"or"mysticalsyllable"or"armationtosomethingdivine",orassymbolismforabstractspiritualconceptsintheUpanishads. InJainism,omisconsideredacondensedformofreferencetothePañca-Paramesṭhi. IkOankar,SikhismaretheopeningwordsoftheGuruGranthSahib,theSikhscripture.Itisthestatementthat'thereisoneGod',andthatthereis'singularity despiteseemingplurality'.
BuildingblocksasperTheHinduphilosophy
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TheConnection
Inallprobability,theneutrinosdocorrespondtosomeextentthe'Pranava.ThisassumptionisbasedontheexperimentalconclusionthatNeutrinoshave avoursandthattherearethreestatesofexistencecorrespondingtothethreestatesofthe'Pranava'. Theconstitutionorappearancesofthingsiseight-fold.(Dimensions).Ithasfourmeasuresorextents.(contrarytothreestatesinNeutrinos). Therstoneiselectricaleld. Itsmeteris'Aakaram'therstconsonantinmostofthelanguages.TheessenceorelementoftherstmeasureisEarth. Itsmetricalarrangement,thisstringhasatotalof8letters. Ithasthepropertyofre,stationedineast-southside.Thismeasureisredincolour.Theenergyofthisstringisofgold. Theconditionoftherststring/measurerepresentswakefulstateorconsciousstate.Obesebutvibrant. Ithassevencomponentsorparts;and19facesandenjoysgrossthingsandworldly Itisshortinradiuscomparedtoothercircularstringsencirclingit.Alwaysinwakeful-stateguardingthecentrepoint.
PropertiesofOmkara
www.kodandapani.net 51 Thesecondoneis'U'karamthefthconsonantintheSanskritlanguage.Theessenceorelementofthesecondmeasureissky. Itsmetricalarrangementhasatotalof11letters. Ithasthepropertyofre,stationedinthesouth.Thismeasureiswhiteincolour.Theenergyofthisstringisstaticelectricity. Theconditionofthesecondstring/measurerepresentsdreamfulstateornotbeinginconsciousstate. Ithassevencomponentsorparts;and19facesandenjoyssubtlethings;cupidandinsightful. Itislonginradiuscomparedtotherstcircularstring;encirclingit,andabovetherststring. Thethirdoneis'Ma'karamthetwentyfthletterinthetelugulanguage.Theessenceorelementofthethirdmeasureisswargam. Itsmetricalarrangementhasatotalof12letters. Ithasthepropertyofre,stationedintheface.Thismeasureisblackincolour.Theenergyofthisstringiswhitespectrum. Theconditionofthethirdstring/measurerepresentsdeepsleep.Sushupti. Thisentityhasapropertythatitcannotbesubdued,andthisstringrepresents'time'.
PropertiesofOmkara
www.kodandapani.net 52 Atthecentrepointofallstringsliesthemostimportantentity.Thisiscalledthe'Turiya'stateorthedeepsleepstate.However,astheneutrinososcillate betweenthethreestates,thisstatesubsumesalltheotherstatesoftheearliermentionedthreestrings. Itsmetricalarrangementhasatotalof26letters. Ithasthepropertyofre. Thismeasureisgoldincolour.Theenergyofthisstringismulti-colourspectrum. 5-Nextentityin'Pranava'isthecentrepoint,chakraraju 6-Nextistheentityof'sound',theking 7-KalaswarupuduLakshamnudu 8-BhagavathiSita,female,Mulaprakruthi
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Conclusion
Theimagelookslikethis. Substitutethewithrightsideimage,forthePranavaor'Om'constitution.
ita'touchy'subjectandopenupawiderangeofdebatesandinterpretations,despitethestrong mathematicalfoundationtobackupQMasawell-establishedscientictheory.
searchingforthenalanswer,seemstobethegreatestmotivationforscience.
reality.However,thereisnothinginthisuniversethatisreal.Theaspectofconsciousnessorthe
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shouldbeindependentoftime.Beyondpast,presentandfutureincludingwhentherewasnotime.AncientIndictextshavedealtaboutitextensivelyand concludedas'Omtatsat',meaning'itexists'.ThatisOmorOmkaram.ThecentralthemeoftheVedas,UpanishadsistherealizationofOmwhichisall pervadingandknower,theultimateandtheTruth.
eloquentlydescribedthatOmhasnobeginningnorend;furtheritisallpervadingintheskyincountlessnumberwithintheuniverseandoutside.ITisthe
Someobservationorcalculationwillbemadethatwillreorientourinquiriesand,ifithappensashashappenedsoofteninthepast,wewillrealizethatthe importantevidencehasbeensittingunnoticedunderournosesforDecades.
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