We discuss the physical nature of elementary singularities arising in the complexified Maxwell field extended into complex spacetime, i.e., in Lanczos-Newman electrodynamics. We show that the translation of the world-line of a bare electric-monopole singularity into imaginary space is adding a magnetic-dimonopole component to it, so that it may be interpreted as a pseudo-scalar pion-proton inte...

About the Author The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS worked in theoretical elementary particle physics for 25 years and was previously Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University and then President of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Dr Polkinghorne was the Founding President of the International Society for Science and Religion (2002-2004) and is the author of numerous books on scie...

Of course, we don't mean to say that focusing on CF/LENR is because we're inclined to this kind of fusion, but because of our conviction to the idea that deep inside the nuclei, the structure resembles condensed matter physics (or superconductor), either using Ervin Goldfain's CGLE model, 'compressed hydrogen' (Rutherford), or Wilczek's theory [6]. Furthermore, one can find another hint by stud...

We state several ideas based on the view-point of particle behaviour of matter to explain wave character of photon and elementary particles. By using Newton’s suggestion of light ray, we clarify integrally the behaviour of light “wave”. And “wave” character of particles is also explained by the view-point of particle.

We report on spectral observations of the night sky in the band around 900 Å where the emission line in the Sciama model of radiatively decaying massive neutrinos would be present. The data were obtained with a high resolution, high sensitivity spectrometer flown on the Spanish MINISAT satellite. The observed emission is far less intense than that expected in the Sciama model. Subject headings:...

The detection of low energy neutrinos in a large scintillation detector may provide further important information on astrophysical processes as supernova physics, solar physics and elementary particle physics as well as geophysics. In this contribution, a new project for Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy (LENA) consisting of a 50 kt scintillation detector is presented. ∗Corresponding authors. Fax: ...

In the standard model of the elementary particles, the number of neutrino flavor is three. However, there have been indications of existence of 4th neutrino, called sterile neutrino, in some neutrino oscillation related experiments. A number of experiments are planned to test whether such indications are true or not. Among them, experiments which use neutrinos from π, K, μ decay at rest (DAR) a...

Within an exactly solvable model I discuss an influence of the medium dependent finite width of QGP bags on their equation of state. It is shown that inclusion of such a width allows one to naturally resolve two conceptual problems of the QGP statistical description. On the basis of the proposed simple kinetic model for a sequential decay of heavy QGP bags formed in high energy elementary parti...

Some atomic decays of elementary particles with pionium (ππ-dimesoatom) in the final state are considered. Only for K-meson atomic decays are the corresponding branching ratios big enough to make their experimental study realistic. The O(α) order corrections to the lifetime of pionium are also calculated.

We comment on the present status, the concepts and their limitations, and the successes and open problems of the various approaches to a relativistic quantum theory of elementary particles, with a hindsight to questions concerning quantum gravity and string theory.