QCD and Natural Philosophy
Physics Education
2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Popular Physics
Abstract
QCD sheds considerable light on several of the most basic features of the natural world including the origin of mass, the feebleness of gravity, the extent to which the properties of matter can be determined conceptually, the possible utility of the anthropic principle, and the metatheoretic notions of effectiveness and computability. I discuss these applications here.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0212025,
title = {QCD and Natural Philosophy},
author = {Frank Wilczek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0212025},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages; Plenary talk at TH2002, Paris, July 2002; minor typos corrected; email correspondence to [email protected]