Paper paradigms and more!

A semiproductive week, still very busy though. Dr. John was out of town this week. I was substituting for his lectures. Lecturing an introductory physics course can be very boring, especially if it's not a calculus based course. The PRL referees still elusive as they were till now. However there was an update of reminders on the status. I had this idea, which still appear very amazing to me. Essentially everything boils down to a simple question whether the smallness of dark energy has anything to do with the Planck's constant h. When I did a simple calculation, putting in the numbers, I am forced to believe that there may be some connections. Apart from that, I made some, strides in learning QFT. One thing I worked on a bit was to arrive at something short of constraining the mass of the field and the dimensional coupling constant (lambda). Theoretically its possible. But nothing makes sense right now because the SUSY breaking is theory ependent. However I feel that, some sense can be made out of it if we fix the electro weak SUSY breaking time from some other closely resembling theories. Moreover the solutions for the Decaying Higgs is an attractor. This means that the Decaying function depends on the initial value and there can be a family of solution with different initial values. That makes the whole procedure of fixing the time very tedious. The last and important reason to be extra cautious is the experimental constraint.

The vaccum expectation value of the higgs according to the standard model of particle physics is the sum of the effective masses of the W+, W- and the Zo vector bosons. People have bounds established for the SM Higgs already at over 200 GeV. The coupling constant has a value range from 0.1 to less than 1. Establishing the value of the coupling constant is not a good way of doing science, because we have no idea of it and its only measured experimentally in collider experiments. But I am curious to know the pattern, may be right or wrong. Within a couple of days I am hopeful of some progress. This is again Dr.'s idea. I see him all the time busy with his computer and then sometimes he comes up with these ideas. So I feel I have completed the required ground work.

I was browsing slowly and steadily over some comprehensive/qualifying test material. I figured out that I don't know much physics at all. I am very much keeping an eye on that stuff. I don't know why I feel that I have to keep studying always for doing research and actually I do. But I don't see other graduate students studying at all. They always do their research. May be they are smarter than I am. Actually they are. All right, I don't know the reasons nor do I want to. This is more fun. The other thought I had over the weekend, was something to do with my old idea of entropy itself. Somehow I feel that entropy and time are related. May be like the chicken and egg situation. Because time has no relevance physically without entropy, though not a psycological kind. But as we all know, physical law has nothing to do with the mind. In other words entropy is something which connects with the physical and spiritual.

Then on sunday Wellesley invited me for dinner at his place. Playing with babies is always fun. That's exactly what I was doing with Wellesley's son Christian. I thought he is a very smart kid for his age. Cynthia served us an italian dinner, which was awesome. This wasn't for the first time I was there. Wellesley invites me occasionally if not too often!