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19: Another look at Our “Indigenous Higgs Model”

      https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813278981_0019Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
      Abstract:

      In 1992, in a question — and — answer book intended to explain the highlights of Superstring Theory, the immensely knowledgeable physicist Edward Witten began his response to the question “What are the essential problems that the superstring theory claims to address?” thusly: “In twentieth century physics there are two really fundamental pillars, one of them is general relativity which is Einstein’s theory of gravity and the other is quantum mechanics, which is the theory of everything that goes on in the microscopic domain. In other words it’s the theory of atoms, molecules and smaller objects called elementary particles. The basic problem in modern physics is that these two pillars are incompatible (Witten 1992)”…