{"id":8950,"date":"2021-06-30T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.particlebites.com\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2021-06-30T23:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:15:38","slug":"might-i-inquire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.particlebites.com\/?p=8950","title":{"rendered":"Might I inquire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Is N=2 large?<\/em>” queried<\/a>  Kitano, Yamada and Yamazaki in their paper title. Exactly five months later, they co-wrote<\/a> with Matsudo a paper titled “N=2 is large<\/em>“, proving that their question was, after all, rhetorical. <\/p>\n

Papers ask the darndest things. Collected below are titular posers from the field’s literature that keep us up at night. <\/p>\n

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Image: Rahmat Dwi Kahyo, Noun Project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

Who?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Who you gonna call?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is afraid of quadratic divergences?<\/a><\/em>
Who is afraid of CPT violations?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How big are penguins?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How bright is the proton?<\/a><\/em>
How brightly does the glasma shine?<\/a><\/em>
How bright can the brightest neutrino source be?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How stable is the photon?<\/a><\/em>
(Abstract: “Yes, the photon.”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How heavy is the cold photon?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How good is the Villain approximation?<\/em><\/a>
How light is dark?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many solar neutrino experiments are wrong?<\/a><\/em>
How many thoughts are there?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How would a kilonova look on camera?<\/a><\/em>
How does a collapsing star look?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much information is in a jet?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How fast can a black hole eat?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How straight is the Linac and how much does it vibrate?<\/em><\/a>
How do we build Bjorken’s 1000 TeV machine?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How black is a constituent quark?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How neutral are atoms?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long does hydrogen live?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does a pseudoscalar glueball come unglued?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How warm is too warm?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How degenerate can we be?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the heck is it possible that a system emitting only a dozen particles can be described by fluid dynamics?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

How I spent my summer vacation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Why is<\/a> <\/em>$latex \\ F^2_\\pi \\gamma_{\\rho \\pi \\pi^2}\/m^2_\\rho \\cong 0$?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why trust a theory?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why be natural?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do things fall?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we flush gas in gaseous detectors?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why continue with nuclear physics?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What and why are Siberian snakes?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does the proton beam have a hole?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are physicists going underground?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why unify?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do nucleons behave like nucleons inside nuclei and not like peas in a meson soup?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why <\/a><\/em>i<\/a>?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The best why<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why I would be very sad if a Higgs boson were discovered<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the proton is getting bigger<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why I think that dark matter has large self-interactions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Nature appears to ‘read books on free field theory’<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Is N=2 large?” queried  Kitano, Yamada and Yamazaki in their paper title. Exactly five months later, they co-wrote with Matsudo a paper titled “N=2 is large“, proving that their question was, after all, rhetorical.  Papers ask the darndest things. Collected below are titular posers from the field’s literature that keep us up at night.  Who? … <\/p>\n

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