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Gerard ’t Hooft. Utrecht University. The Nature of. MATTER. and. FORCES. Stockholm, August 27, 2004. Sir James Clark Maxwell. 1831-1879 - Statistical Mechanics Thermodynamics Improved the mathematical formulation of Michael Faraday’s theories of
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Gerard ’t Hooft Utrecht University The Nature of MATTER and FORCES Stockholm, August 27, 2004
Sir James Clark Maxwell • 1831-1879 • - Statistical Mechanics • Thermodynamics • Improved the mathematical • formulation of Michael • Faraday’s theories of • electricity and magnetic • lines of force ...
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955 1905: - Photo-electric effect - Special Relativity - Brownian motion; statistical mechanics 1915: General relativity (gravitation)
QUANTUM the ATOM
Quantum Mechanics Special Relativity + = Elementary Particle Physics ( = High Energy Physics = Quantum Field Theory )
1969 photon Leptons anti- leptons This is only 4 % of the matter in the Universe ! (See Licia verde’s talk) Hadrons mesons baryons anti- baryons anti-
Known from experiment the forces Forces: the ELECTRO MAGNETIC force the STRONG force the WEAK force
The Yang-Mills Field C.N. Yang and R.L. Mills, 1954
Yang - Mills quanta o o - + o + - neutron proton + o
Multiplets According to the Yang-Mills-theory P N Nucleons pions Yang-Mills bosons
Breaking Rotational Symmetry THIS becomes an essential degree of freedom ... And THIS is the Higgs degree of Freedom … turning the gauge force carriers massive !
S.L. Glashow St. Weinberg A. Salam
Weinberg’s lepton model Weinberg Model Anti – Leptons Gauge bosons Leptons Higgs
The hadronic particles … Antiproton Proton Lambda Pi-plus Pi-zero
The Yang-Mills Color Field Quantum Chromo Dynamics
weak u u u d d d c c c charm strong top t t t b b b bottom Quark species quarks Antiquarks up down strange s s s
Generation I Generation II Generation III Leptons Quarks g Gauge Bosons The Standard Model Higgs Graviton
Total cross sections CESR DORIS PEP PETRA TRISTAN
The fourth force: Gravitation
Planck length : Today’s Limit … The highway across the desert GUTs
SU(4) x SU(2) x SU(2) Further unification SO(10) 3 generations