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Imagining the future, or how the Standard Model may survive the attacks

Gerard ’t Hooft

Institute for Theoretical Physics, EMMEΦ, Centre for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Science Faculty, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.195, 3808TD, Utrecht, the Netherlands

E-mail Address: g.thooft@uu.nl

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Abstract

After the last missing piece, the Higgs particle, has probably been identified, the Standard Model of the subatomic particles appears to be a quite robust structure, that can survive on its own for a long time to come. Most researchers expect considerable modifications and improvements to come in the near future, but it could also be that the Model will stay essentially as it is. This, however, would also require a change in our thinking, and the question remains whether and how it can be reconciled with our desire for our theories to be “natural”.

Based on talk given at the Memorial Meeting for Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam’s 90th Birthday, Singapore, 25–28 January 2016.

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