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Theory of Everything (TOE)

Theory of Everything (TOE). Sophomore Seminar Presenter: Samuel D. Tootle. Brief Introduction. Samuel Tootle Undergraduate in Physics Reasons for TOE overview: Better Understanding of TOE Up-to-date Grasp of the Topic Cause for Public Interest: Future Technological Predictions

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Theory of Everything (TOE)

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  1. Theory of Everything(TOE) Sophomore Seminar Presenter: Samuel D. Tootle

  2. Brief Introduction • Samuel Tootle • Undergraduate in Physics • Reasons for TOE overview: • Better Understanding of TOE • Up-to-date Grasp of the Topic • Cause for Public Interest: • Future Technological Predictions • Better Understanding of Fundamental concepts • Insight into new concepts

  3. History of TOE • Einstein • General Theory of Relativity • Plans to Unify Gravity and Electromagnetism • Unification of Electromagnetism and Weak Force • 1967-68 • Sheldon Glashow, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam • Grand Unified Theories (GUT) • Used to try and unify Strong and electroweak forces.

  4. Current TOE • Theories • Superstring Theory • M-theory • Supersymmetry • Experimental Setups • Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – Europe

  5. Summary • Importance of TOE • Future Technological Predictions • Better Understanding of the standard model • Realization of a larger universe • Interesting Articles • On Gravity, Oreos, and a Theory of Everything http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/science/01prof.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=b69697b6f1e05472&ex=1189828800 • The Everything of Theory – Comical http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/parodies/next.html

  6. References • Wikipedia - www.wikipedia.org • FirstScience - http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/articles/kaku.asp • Live Science http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070821_unified_theory.html • Berkley - Hitoshi Murayama http://hitoshi.berkeley.edu/public_html/susy/susy.html

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