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A Long View of Particle Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-07-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

2011 marked the hundredth anniversary both of the famous Solvay conferences, and of the Geiger-Marsden experiment that launched the modern understanding of subatomic structure. I was asked to survey the status and prospects of particle physics for the anniversary Solvay conference, with appropriate perspective. This is my attempt.

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@article{arxiv.1204.4683,
  title  = {A Long View of Particle Physics},
  author = {Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4683},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

8 pages, no figures. Rapporteur talk at the 25$^{th}$ Solvay Conference on Physics, "Theory of the Quantum World", October 2011. To be published in the Proceedings. v2: Two trivial typos corrected

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