tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post6595735946196139981..comments2023-08-16T08:02:29.630+00:00Comments on Noncommutative Geometry: IRONYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-34701774823794485482008-08-18T10:10:00.000+00:002008-08-18T10:10:00.000+00:00Apart from the fact that it is usually unwise to c...Apart from the fact that it is usually unwise to comment physics results based on press releases, I wonder how solid are the two supposedly incompatible results.<BR/>I am not qualified to comment on the experimental side, and I am probably also not qualified for the theoretical part, but I will comment on it anyway.<BR/><BR/>Alain will certainly remember that in various incarnations of the model,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-17165783783255018382008-08-11T12:37:00.000+00:002008-08-11T12:37:00.000+00:00"It is to be expected the readers of this blog wil..."It is to be expected the readers of this blog will go for math and physics, not for personalities."<BR/><BR/>Right .<BR/>At least most of them but not all as an anonymous shows above .<BR/>Of course both AC and LM are much farther than most of us and that's why I learn useful things from both .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-85955033925974868632008-08-10T04:20:00.000+00:002008-08-10T04:20:00.000+00:00It is to be expected the readers of this blog will...It is to be expected the readers of this blog will go for math and physics, not for personalities.<BR/><BR/>A friend of me expressed this question of personality, in a very NCG like verse:<BR/><BR/><I>"Distancia,<BR/>de ti a mí distancia:<BR/>entre tú y yo, nada."</I><BR/><BR/>The third line "tu" and "yo" are the English "You" and "I", not to be confused with the personalizations "yourself" and "Alejandro Riverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181521111080562335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-53258255162829954802008-08-09T20:34:00.000+00:002008-08-09T20:34:00.000+00:00Dear Dr. Connes,I would like to point you to the f...Dear Dr. Connes,<BR/><BR/>I would like to point you to the following post from a PI researcher:<BR/><BR/>http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/08/lubo-motl.html<BR/><BR/>Be careful when you're interacting with Lubos online. Try not to disagree with him and make sure that, in your dealings with him, you satisfy the demands of his overly inflated ego and his delusional sense of grandeur and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-12569765115842216532008-08-09T16:53:00.000+00:002008-08-09T16:53:00.000+00:00Dear Dr. Connes,If you want to see what Lubos wrot...Dear Dr. Connes,<BR/><BR/>If you want to see what Lubos wrote about you and your theory, here it is:<BR/><BR/>http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/tevatron-falsifies-connes-model-of.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-51367093751540394582008-08-09T16:36:00.000+00:002008-08-09T16:36:00.000+00:00I want to point you to a few things. First, is thi...I want to point you to a few things. First, is this Lubos Motl work, which is extremely intriguing:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZxPTRfztsE<BR/><BR/>Also, a collection of Lubos’ greatest works from his very own blog:<BR/><BR/>http://prime-spot.de/Bored/bolubos_short.doc<BR/><BR/>It’s a good collection of his insults, as well as his racist and sexist remarks. Very interesting.<BR/><BR/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-24833924488617452622008-08-09T16:32:00.000+00:002008-08-09T16:32:00.000+00:00Dear Dr. Connes,It appears that someone is imperso...Dear Dr. Connes,<BR/><BR/>It appears that someone is impersonating you at (comment #121):<BR/><BR/>http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/new-bounds-for-the-higgs/#comments<BR/><BR/>Kind of amusing. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-45767479929985850062008-08-09T03:23:00.000+00:002008-08-09T03:23:00.000+00:00Am I dreaming ? An unknown guy called "lumo" who h...Am I dreaming ? An unknown guy called "lumo" who happens to have signed a book (which he's likely to have written less than a half) called "L'équation Bogdanov" in France, aimed to support fraudsters and to promote the delusion that "Harvard" support them is now giving lessons to Alain Connes ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-55255124169245515102008-08-07T23:21:00.000+00:002008-08-07T23:21:00.000+00:00I envy you Dr. Connes. I wish I can come up with a...I envy you Dr. Connes. I wish I can come up with a theory which can make such concrete, testable numbers. You're my hero.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-52996370769589386422008-08-07T11:12:00.000+00:002008-08-07T11:12:00.000+00:00Dear professor Connes:GO ON!Dear professor Connes:<BR/>GO ON!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-32590821191355581572008-08-06T15:27:00.000+00:002008-08-06T15:27:00.000+00:00"The particularity of 170 GeV, as mentioned by Lub...<I>"The particularity of 170 GeV, as mentioned by Lubos, is best seen in the typical plot by Quigg, for instance in page 28, figure 12, of 0704.2232v2, to quote the most recent version."</I><BR/><BR/>Since the location of the Landau pole is exponentially-sensitive to the value of the Higgs mass (see, e.g., equation (48) of that paper), this is not something you do by <EM>eyeballing</EM> some Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-12322539025038991642008-08-06T14:05:00.000+00:002008-08-06T14:05:00.000+00:00Dear Jacques,you wrote: "I have no idea why you th...Dear Jacques,<BR/><BR/>you wrote: "I have no idea why you think I was attempting to convince you of that."<BR/><BR/>But I didn't claim that you were attempting to convince me of that. On the other hand, you should have tried - because this is the only physically meaningful question that matters in the debate about these novel kinds of predictions in general.<BR/><BR/>So the fact you were Luboš Motlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487263983247488359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-52933665770646917002008-08-06T13:01:00.000+00:002008-08-06T13:01:00.000+00:00"Your article didn't help me to increase my belief...<I>"Your article didn't help me to increase my belief that it should be possible to predict from a new, different, equivalent formulation of a field theory relationships that cannot be extracted from the old-fashioned definitions of the theory."</I><BR/><BR/>I have no idea why you think I was attempting to convince you of that.<BR/><BR/>At low energies (E≪Λ), <EM>everything</EM> can be phrased inAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-48855237616312566142008-08-06T12:52:00.000+00:002008-08-06T12:52:00.000+00:00The particularity of 170 GeV, as mentioned by Lubo...The particularity of 170 GeV, as mentioned by Lubos, is best seen in the typical plot by Quigg, for instance in page 28, figure 12, of 0704.2232v2, to quote the most recent version. <BR/><BR/>About NCG and strings, there is a question of method: the NCG approach keeps trying to get most hints from the known, experimental HEP information, and build on these fundations. So it could be asked if theAlejandro Riverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181521111080562335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-64256713383856481492008-08-06T09:26:00.000+00:002008-08-06T09:26:00.000+00:00Dear Jacques, thanks for the precise numbers - the...Dear Jacques, thanks for the precise numbers - the Landau-pole bound is a tiny bit higher than 170 GeV, then - but I didn't ever write that the GUT-scale Landau pole was a problem.<BR/><BR/>It would be on the edge of being a problem in a theory valid up to the GUT scale, and I would actually find it "somewhat natural" for the theory to break down as soon as possible. <BR/><BR/>More natural than aLuboš Motlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487263983247488359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-68972978576968700702008-08-06T06:56:00.000+00:002008-08-06T06:56:00.000+00:00"I wonder whether you appreciate the special role ...<I>"I wonder whether you appreciate the special role of the value 170 GeV. It's the value for which the Higgs quartic self-interaction is high enough for the RG running to push it to a divergent value - the Landau pole - at an accessible energy scale, namely the GUT scale."</I><BR/><BR/>I am hesitant to wade into this, but I believe that's wrong. 170 GeV came out of an RG analysis, alright. But, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-65932367296378330082008-08-05T17:57:00.000+00:002008-08-05T17:57:00.000+00:00Dear Prof Connes,thanks for this amazing speed and...<A HREF="http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/08/tevatron-falsifies-connes-model-of.html" REL="nofollow">Dear Prof Connes,</A><BR/><BR/>thanks for this amazing speed and integrity. I am sure it wouldn't be matched by any other author of unusual and unexpected predictions in physics I know of.<BR/><BR/>The choice of the number 170 GeV seems unfortunate enough for you to start to be careful about the Luboš Motlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17487263983247488359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-78245511520889248752008-08-04T21:13:00.000+00:002008-08-04T21:13:00.000+00:00Beautiful sentiments. Of course, we should be exci...Beautiful sentiments. Of course, we should be excited that new physics is definitely indicated!Keahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05652514294703722285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-20003339038086324592008-08-04T18:41:00.000+00:002008-08-04T18:41:00.000+00:00Alain,'chapeau' for being the first to tell about ...Alain,<BR/><BR/>'chapeau' for being the first to tell about a possible conflict between your theory and experiment.<BR/><BR/>but then, there's still a 5% chance...<BR/><BR/>if all fails, there's Lucretius going on (as in arivero's comment)<BR/><BR/>Sed nil dulcius est bene quam munita tenere<BR/>edita doctrina sapientum templa serena.<BR/><BR/>atb :: lieven.lievenlbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16509670850928442085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912603287930240451.post-12093849330221695922008-08-04T17:41:00.000+00:002008-08-04T17:41:00.000+00:00sed nil dulcius est bene quam munita tenereedita d...sed nil dulcius est bene quam munita tenere<BR/>edita doctrina sapientum templa serena,<BR/><BR/>Well, at least we know we are safe from the "malis" of 170 GeV. Lacking, as we lack, of some ingredients (generations, to name one), it had been even suspicius to hit the target in the first shot.<BR/><BR/>Still, the model has SU(5) unification without proton decay. And it has these intriguing Alejandro Riverohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181521111080562335noreply@blogger.com