"String Theory, Our Real World, and Higgs bosons"Gordon Kane , University of Michigan [Host: Dinko Pocanic]
ABSTRACT:
String theory is exciting because it can address most or all of the questions we hope to understand about the physical world, about the quarks and leptons that make up our world, and the forces that act on quarks and electrons to form our world, cosmology, and much more. Itâs nice that it provides a quantum theory of gravity too. Iâll explain why string theory is testable in basically the same ways as the rest of physics, why many people including string theorists are confused about that, and how string theory is already or soon being tested in several ways, including Higgs boson physics and LHC physics.
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Colloquium Friday, April 18, 2014 3:30 PM Physics Building, Room 203 Note special room. INPP Second Annual Lecture |
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