Pomeranchuk and the 1st paper on mirror matter theory
The first paper on mirror matter theory was published in Sov. J. Nucl. Phys in June, 1966 by I. Yu Kobzarev, L. B. Okun, and I. Ya Pomeranchuk. Both Kobzarev and Okun are students of Pomeranchuk. Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (5/20/1913-12/14/1966) was a highly achieved Soviet physicist but unfortunately was diagnosed with cancer in the fall […]
A historic note on early development of the mirror matter idea by L. Okun
Lev Okun, one of the three former Soviet Union physicists, who first proposed the idea of mirror matter in 1966, wrote a very readable historic article “Mirror particles and mirror matter: 50 years of speculation and searching” [Okun, Phys.-Usp. 50, 380 (2007)].AbstractThis review describes the history of the discovery of the violation of the spatial […]
Toward a Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE)
An initial effort on building a platform for the Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE) has finally come to life: a development site at GitHub.org and a phase-1 MVP deployment at openarxiv.org. Here is the README.md file about the project:CORE: Community-driven Open Research EcosystemOpenArxiv (CORE) as a live instantiation of CORE, is a novel platform for […]