Saturday, September 29, 2012

Glashow's Resonance

Sheldon Lee Glashow has done plenty of important work in his life. I heard from  University of Puebla professor, Harold V. McIntosh, that they had studied Group Theory at Cornell, when Prof. McIntosh was a graduate and Glashow an undergraduate student there. Glashow went on to get a Physics Nobel Prize, for the discovery of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and McIntosh went to develop Computer Science in Mexico.

Recently Prof. McIntosh demonstrated that a 1-D cellular automaton is a universal computer. Very likely the simplest universal computer ever discovered. Now I write on a discovery Glashow made in 1959!

Glashow's Resonance  was postulated before the Standard Model was even invented, let alone the mass of the intermediate W boson known. Obviously he couldn't predict the exact number. It is 6.3 PeV.

Aya Ishihara  recently announced in Kyoto, that Glashow's Resonance might have been found by IceCube in the South Pole!

Professor Glashow deserves another Nobel Prize, if this turns out to be true.

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