CERN Colloquium

DEMYSTIFYING QUANTUM MECHANICS: Will there be hints from LHC?

by 't Hooft, G. (Institute for Theoretical Physics - Utrecht)

Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Description
All modern theories for particles, forces and even space-time itself, use the framework provided by quantum mechanics. The Standard Model is a quantized field theory. Even superstring theory is based on quantum mechanics. There is something odd about quantum mechanics: it brilliantly allows us to predict the outcome of experiments, yet it gives confusing statements about what really is going on inside particles and fields. Suppose we would be asking for a theory that allows us to describe what actually happens in less ambiguous terms, without destroying the magnificent successes of quantum mechanics, would this help us to answer some of the great mysteries of theoretical elementary particle physics?

Organiser(s): L. Alvarez-Gaume / PH-TH

Note: * Tea & coffee will be served at 16:00.
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