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Title: Quantum quivering of gravity


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Quantum quivering of gravity
  • The search for the unified field theory

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  • Interactions
  • Electro-Weak Theory
  • GUT
  • Quantum field gravity
  • Superstring
  • Experiments

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Gravitational
  • General theory of relativity
  • A. Einstein 1916
  • Warping of space time
  • Symmetry between observations

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Electromagnetic
  • J. C. Maxwell 1865
  • Quantum electrodynamics
  • Renormalization
  • Gauge symmetry

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Weak
  • Nuclear force
  • B-decay
  • Breaking of symmetry

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Strong
  • Quantum chromodynamics 1970s
  • Color RGB
  • M. GellMann
  • The Eightfold Way
  • Quarks
  • Symmetry

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Interactions
  • Gravitational
  • Electromagnetic
  • Weak
  • Strong

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Electro-Weak Theory
  • S. Weinberg, A. Salam, S. Glashow 1968
  • Symmetry electron neutrino
  • G. T Hooft renormalizable
  • P. Higgs higgs boson mass

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GUT
  • H. Georgi, S. Glashow 1974
  • Prediction quark electron decay
  • Supersymmetry

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Quantum Mechanics Gravity
  • Planck length

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Superstring Theory
  • G. Chews S-Matrix theory
  • No renormalization
  • Beta function
  • Y. Nambu 1970 strings
  • 10 dimensions
  • Largest symmetry

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Colliders
  • LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
  • LEP

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Gravitational wave detectors
  • LIGO
  • VIRGE
  • GEO
  • LISA

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Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe Stephen
Hawking - A Brief History of Time Michio Kaku -
Huperspace Michio Kaku - Beyond Einstein John D.
Barrow - Theories of Everything Stephen
W.Hawking and Roger Penrose - The Nature Of Space
and Time
  • http//universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/program.html
  • http//lhc-new-homepage.web.cern.ch (LHC)
  • http//www.ligo.caltech.edu (LIGO)
  • http//lisa.jpl.nasa.gov/ (LISA)

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Richard Feynman Physics is like sex sure, it
may give some practical results, but that's not
why we do it. .  
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