Summer Student Lecture Programme Course
Closing Lectures:Dreams of a Finite Theory
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Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
Description
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
Organiser(s): HR-RFA