You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Help! I am an Innovation Addict! From Ph.D. in Quantum Chromodynamics to Cryptos (going through CERN and lots of other places…)
Glad you took me up on my dare.
Gribov copies arise because it’s not possible to make a smooth global section of a principal fiber bundle P on a compact manifold M with fiber G over M if G is a non-abelian group.
I can honestly say I understand all those words (and definitions) but have no idea what it means in a physical (read practical) sense.
Well, there are hints that computing QCD correlation functions after keeping due account of Gribov copies might bring some mathematical explanation for the phenomenon of color confinement (the fact that you cannot pull single quarks out of nuclei). I (together with many others) wrote lots of papers about this, but I think nobody has achieved the final "proof" yet.
Let's cut to the chase here and get to the applied part. What do you believe is the next big thing coming out of research like this? A bigger and better bomb? Some form of energy production?
Not complete science fiction stuff, but what you think is actually plausible maybe during your lifetime. I assume this is not a question theoretical physics people like (no offense meant haha).
It's a very legitimate and pertinent question. If you want something very concrete, I will mention that the know-how developed for CERN experiments has led to the development of innovative cancer-treating techniques, especially for children, and new medical imaging devices. So, spin-offs from the crazy physics stuff are saving lives as we speak! ! I might expand this in a future post
...you should definitely expand on this in another post Claudio, because even today there are many people who still don't appreciate the flow from theoretical science => experimental developments => societal benefits.
good for you complex, shows your curating skills are fine