At the root of things
Popular Physics
2009-07-17 v2
Abstract
Modern theories of fundamental interactions describe strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions as quantum field theories with certain kinds of embedded internal symmetries called `gauge symmetries'. This article introduces quantum field theories and gauge symmetries to the uninitiated.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0906.4955,
title = {At the root of things},
author = {Palash B. Pal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4955},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 22 pages, requires axodraw.sty. A small error has been corrected in this version. Journal reference was also wrong in the previous version