Millennium Problems

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:54 pm

You might find some of this of interest

http://www.claymath.org/millennium/ - specifically ->
http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Yang-Mills_Theory/

(The problems in the first page are on the right sidebar)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... ence_maths

Post by **Falco Girgis** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:40 pm

Has anybody answered any of those 7 questions?

Also, I'm not really sure that I'm getting this:

Article wrote: The successful use of Yang-Mills theory to describe the strong interactions of elementary particles depends on a subtle quantum mechanical property called the "mass gap:" the quantum particles have positive masses, even though the classical waves travel at the speed of light.

What does having positive masses have to do with classical waves traveling at the speed of light?

By positive, I'm assuming they're meaning >0 and not positively charged like a proton. Right?

Can you explain to me what this means?

EDIT - What is that Russian guy's problem? He seems to be kinda wierd to not be interested in his $1 million.

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:30 pm

He's a recluse.

Uh... the idea being, I think, that you have to have no mass to go the speed of light... maybe. :)