Comments on: Talk Talk http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Blake Stacey http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-90177 Blake Stacey Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:25:54 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-90177 <blockquote>The sorts of important “strongly coupled” phenomena we uncover can be modeled and studied closely using the types of stringy computations we carried out.</blockquote> At this point, I would hardly be surprised if a paper came out applying stringy computations to <a href="http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v99/e188001" rel="nofollow">glass beads</a>. Physics is fun! :-)

The sorts of important “strongly coupled” phenomena we uncover can be modeled and studied closely using the types of stringy computations we carried out.

At this point, I would hardly be surprised if a paper came out applying stringy computations to glass beads. Physics is fun! :-)

]]> By: My work here is done - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-87908 My work here is done - Asymptotia Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:20:01 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-87908 [...] So I gave the seminar at noon, talking about much the same material I did in my Santa Barbara talk I mentioned before here. We then went to lunch at a Korean place nearby that was rather good. I ordered the bi bim bap (as I often do at Korean places) and to my disappointment, it did not come in the super high temperature near-molten you-can-burn-yourself-any-minute stone bowl that I love about the dish, where the whole meal keeps cooking right until the last pinch of the chopsticks. So I asked, and it seems that I’d not known (in all these years of ordering the dish) that what I like comes under a slightly modified name (”dolsot bi bim bap”), and so I paid my extra two dollars and got it re-done the way the Gods intended. Excellent. [...] [...] So I gave the seminar at noon, talking about much the same material I did in my Santa Barbara talk I mentioned before here. We then went to lunch at a Korean place nearby that was rather good. I ordered the bi bim bap (as I often do at Korean places) and to my disappointment, it did not come in the super high temperature near-molten you-can-burn-yourself-any-minute stone bowl that I love about the dish, where the whole meal keeps cooking right until the last pinch of the chopsticks. So I asked, and it seems that I’d not known (in all these years of ordering the dish) that what I like comes under a slightly modified name (”dolsot bi bim bap”), and so I paid my extra two dollars and got it re-done the way the Gods intended. Excellent. [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84859 Clifford Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:55:18 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84859 Sadly, both your expectation and your guess are wrong. The binding energy is finite, and there are mesons above the deconfinement transition. Have a read of the paper and some of the others it cites. Best, -cvj Sadly, both your expectation and your guess are wrong. The binding energy is finite, and there are mesons above the deconfinement transition. Have a read of the paper and some of the others it cites.

Best,

-cvj

]]> By: mero http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84858 mero Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:54:25 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84858 I’d expect that, below the deconfining transition, the binding energy of a quark/antiquark pair is infinite. But a strong enough electric field can create pairs out of the vacuum, breaking the string in the meson and forming more mesons. I guess that’s quite a naive picture but maybe not totally wrong. I’d guess that, above the critical temperature for the deconfining transition there are no mesons to break. I’d expect that, below the deconfining transition, the binding energy of a quark/antiquark pair is infinite. But a strong enough electric field can create pairs out of the vacuum, breaking the string in the meson and forming more mesons. I guess that’s quite a naive picture but maybe not totally wrong.
I’d guess that, above the critical temperature for the deconfining transition there are no mesons to break.

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84857 Clifford Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:53:41 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84857 Strong compared to what? Depends upon the binding energy of the quarks, and what the temperature is. It is easier at high temperature, for example. Cheers, -cvj Strong compared to what? Depends upon the binding energy of the quarks, and what the temperature is. It is easier at high temperature, for example.

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: mero http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84856 mero Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:52:49 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/10/16/talk-talk/#comment-84856 <blockquote><p>when the electric field gets so strong that it tears the mesons apart into their constituent quarks,</p></blockquote> <p>Now, that’s quite a respectably strong electric field, isn’t it? </p>

when the electric field gets so strong that it tears the mesons apart into their constituent quarks,

Now, that’s quite a respectably strong electric field, isn’t it?

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