The Standard Model of Nature: Lessons from Two Success Stories
by
Gabriele Veneziano(Collège de France & CERN)
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Europe/Zurich
Auditoire Stueckelberg (Geneva University)
Auditoire Stueckelberg
Geneva University
24 quai E. Ansermet, CH-1211 Genève 4
Description
Our present standard model of Nature is based on general relativity for gravity and on a gauge theory for all other fundamental interactions. Its amazing successes --and its puzzles-- may carry some important lessons for our quest of a truly unified theory of space, time, and matter.