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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Truth vs beauty in physical theories
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:29:32
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 19:15:35 GMT
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- In article <mcirvin.727989335@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
-
- > Of course, the picture is remarkably unified compared to what existed
- > some decades ago; we're fairly certain that quantum field theory is at
- > the root of it all, at least down to very small scales, and gauge
- > interactions seem to be responsible for everything except (possibly)
- > the Higgs.
-
- I would take out that "possibly". That is: I don't know whether or
- not a Higgs really exists (I'm skeptical), but whatever it is that
- breaks SU(2)xU(1), I don't think it can be done by pure gauge
- interactions. Even if you believe in Technicolor, chiral symmetry
- breaking isn't enough: you need something to give mass to the
- technifermions, so you've only deferred to problem to a higher energy
- scale.
-
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