Closing Lectures:Dreams of a Finite Theory

Name: Closing Lectures:Dreams of a Finite Theory
Start: 2004-08-13T10:15:00+02:00
End: 2004-08-13T11:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

by Veneziano, G (CERN)

Friday 13 Aug 2004, 10:15 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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In spite of its striking successes the standard model of particle physics has obvious shortcomings, most notably its inability to deal with a consistent quantum version of our leading theory of gravity, Einstein's General Relativity. I will explain in simple terms a new framework in which the concept of particles as point-like objects is replaced by that of vibrating quantum-relativistic strings. The almost magic properties of these tiny objects could eventually provide a finite and unified quantum theory of all particles and interactions.

Organiser(s): HR-RFA

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Closing Lectures:Dreams of a Finite Theory

by Veneziano, G (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN