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Friday, December 7, 2018

The Angel Particle

(Continued from this morning)

Majorana spinors and fermions at ncatlab

The Gibbons paper on the geometry of Majorana spinors and the Kummer configuration

"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."

— T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets

Geometric incarnation and the Kummer configuration

See also other Log24 posts tagged Kummerhenge.

An Ark for Hanukkah

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:01 am

From religionnews.com

"The word 'Hanukkah' means dedication.
It commemorates the rededicating of the
ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. . . . ."

From The New York Times  this morning —

Related material —

From this  journal on Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —

From a Google image search this morning —

The image search was suggested by recent posts tagged Aitchison
and by this morning's previous post.

The Angel Particle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:15 am
 

https://newatlas.com/angel-particle-own-antiparticle/50579/

Scientists discover "angel particle"
that is its own antiparticle

Michael Irving
July 21st, 2017

. . . .

"Our team predicted exactly where to find the Majorana fermion and what to look for as its 'smoking gun' experimental signature," says Shoucheng Zhang, one of the senior authors of the research paper. "This discovery concludes one of the most intensive searches in fundamental physics, which spanned exactly 80 years."

. . . .

Zhang proposes that the team's discovery be named the "angel particle" after the Dan Brown novel Angels and Demons , which features a bomb powered by the meeting of matter and antimatter. In the long run, Majoranas could find practical application in making quantum computers more secure.

The research was published in the journal Science  . . . .

See as well Stanford News  yesterday  —

Shoucheng Zhang died on Dec. 1. He was 55. 

Zhang’s death was unexpected and followed
a “battle with depression,” according to his family. 

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