Ideas of Gavin Hesketh, by Theme
[British, fl. 2016, Physicist based at University College London and CERN.]
green numbers give full details |
back to list of philosophers |
expand these ideas
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
|
21181
|
Relativity and Quantum theory give very different accounts of forces
|
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy
|
21183
|
Thermodynamics introduced work and entropy, to understand steam engine efficiency
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / a. Electrodynamics
|
21191
|
Photons are B and W° bosons, linked by the Higgs mechanism
|
|
21199
|
Spinning electric charge produces magnetism, so all fermions are magnets
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / c. Electrons
|
21180
|
Electrons are fundamental and are not made of anything; they are properties without size
|
|
21189
|
Electrons may have smaller components, bound by a new force
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics
|
21182
|
Quantum mechanics is our only theory, and is very precise, and repeatedly confirmed
|
|
21184
|
Physics was rewritten to explain stable electron orbits
|
|
21187
|
Virtual particles can't be measured, and can ignore the laws of physics
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 3. Chromodynamics / a. Chromodynamics
|
21185
|
Colour charge is positive or negative, and also has red, green or blue direction
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model
|
21194
|
The Standard Model omits gravity, because there are no particles involved
|
|
21195
|
In Supersymmetry the Standard Model simplifies at high energies
|
|
21197
|
Standard Model forces are one- two- and three-dimensional
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties
|
21188
|
Quarks and leptons have a weak charge, for the weak force
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / e. Protons
|
21186
|
Quarks rush wildly around in protons, restrained by the gluons
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / f. Neutrinos
|
21192
|
Neutrinos only interact with the weak force, but decays produce them in huge numbers
|
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 5. Unified Models / c. Supersymmetry
|
21196
|
To combine the forces, they must all be the same strength at some point
|
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 5. Relational Space
|
21190
|
'Space' in physics just means location
|
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 8. Dark Matter
|
21193
|
The universe is 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, 5% regular matter
|
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 9. Fine-Tuned Universe
|
21198
|
If a cosmic theory relies a great deal on fine-tuning basic values, it is probably wrong
|