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The Pooltable Analogy to Axion Physics

Pierre Sikivie

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Abstract

An imaginary character named TSP finds himself in a playroom whose floor is tilted to one side. However, the pooltable in the playroom is horizontal. TSP wonders how this can be. In doing so, he embarks upon an intellectual journey which parallels that which has been travelled during the past two decades by physicists interested in the Strong $CP$ Problem and axion physics.

arXiv comments
8 pages, plain TEX, 4 figures in a separate uuencoded postcript file; based upon a talk at the XXXth Rencontres de Moriond 'Dark Matter in Cosmology' and 'Clocks and Tests of Fundamental Laws', Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, Sept. 21-28, 1995
Journal reference
Phys.Today 49N12:22-27,1996
DOI
doi:10.1063/1.881573
Subjects
hep-phHigh Energy Physics, Phenomenology astro-phAstrophysics

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    • Perhaps, but this has been the case for a long time. Maxwell-Faraday Equations, differential geometry and curvature tensors for general relativity, matrix mechanics and operators for quantum mechanics. Most of the past physics seems much simpler partly because the teaching…

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