MESON2000 Conference Summary
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: 6th International Workshop on Production, Properties, and Interaction of Mesons, Cracow (PL), 05/19/2000--05/23/2000; Other Information: PBD: 26 Apr 2001
- Subject
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS CHIRALITY
HADRONS
MESONS
ORDER PARAMETERS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
MEETINGS
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
- Language
- English
This short contribution is a lite MESON2000 conference summary. As appropriate for the 600th anniversary of the Jagellonian University, it begins with a brief summary of the last 600 years of European history and its place in hadron physics. Next a ''physicist chirality'' order parameter PC is introduced. When applied to MESON2000 plenary speakers this order parameter illustrates the separation of hadron physicists into disjoint communities. The individual plenary talks in MESON2000 are next sorted according to the subconference associated with each of the 36 plenary speakers. Finally, I conclude with a previously unreported Feynman story regarding the use of models in hadron physics.