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