Thursday, September 26, 2019

What is the relevance of gauge symmetries in a gauge theory?

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4664 Simon Friederich (2012) writes that the ontology of gauge theories has received considerable attention fro...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Can a scalar field grow its energy as the universe expands?

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Here is an update to a question we have been looking at this fall. This text is has been copied from a discussion at: https://www.physicsf...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

The Higgs 1964 paper is correct

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In the previous two blogs we had doubts if the Goldstone boson really is eliminated when we couple the gauge field A to the Higgs field. How...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Some analysis on the Higgs 1964 paper Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons

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https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.508 A freely readable copy of the Peter Higgs 1964 paper (just 2 pages) is av...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Can one really "eat" the Goldstone bosons of the Higgs field after a symmetry breaking?

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https://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/lsfrey/teaching/archiv/sose_09/rng/higgs_mechanism.pdf When the Higgs field finds its minimum a...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

The gauge symmetry of electromagnetism plus charges does not hold in a relativistic setting

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Much of modern physics rests on the assumption that electromagnetism has a gauge symmetry, and that the electromagnetic field is a gauge fie...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

The Navier-Stokes millennium problem and the existence of solutions for the Einstein equations

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In this blog we have brought up the question whether the Einstein field equations have a solution for any  realistic physical system. The ...