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May2-04, 09:28 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>"Think of a photon, which is governed by quantum electrodynamics, that\ncan transform into a quark-antiquark pair (governed by quantum\nchromodynamics - the theory of the strong force) or into a W+W- pair\n(governed by quantum-flavour dynamics - the theory of the electroweak\nforce), before both pairs annihilate and form a photon again. The\nannihilation allows these three theories to be present in radiative\neffects. Without these results, the problem of the renormalization of\nthe gauge forces (with or without spontaneous symmetry breaking) would\nnever have been conceived. And if that problem had not been solved -\nas it was in the early 1970s by the 1999 Nobel prize winners Gerard \'t\nHooft and Martinus Veltman - we would not have the Standard Model,\nwith its many precise quantitative predictions that have been\nexperimentally validated in labs all over the world.\n\nThe roots of the Standard Model are in the Dirac equation. We are all\nchildren of this equation. Without it there would be no\nparticle-physics labs and no Standard Model. Of course - and\nfortunately for us - there are sound reasons to believe that there is\na lot of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The recent results on\nneutrino oscillations (see Neutrino mass discovered) and the new\nvalues for direct "CP-violation" in K-meson physics (CP and T\nviolations: new results leave open questions) are opening new avenues\nbeyond the Standard Model. However, none of these discoveries are\naffected in any way by the gravitational force, which was Einstein\'s\nmain interest. "\n\nhttp://physicsweb.org/article/world/13/3/2\n\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form">&nbsp;&nbsp;View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>"Think of a photon, which is governed by quantum electrodynamics, that
can transform into a quark-antiquark pair (governed by quantum
chromodynamics - the theory of the strong force) or into a W+W- pair
(governed by quantum-flavour dynamics - the theory of the electroweak
force), before both pairs annihilate and form a photon again. The
annihilation allows these three theories to be present in radiative
effects. Without these results, the problem of the renormalization of
the gauge forces (with or without spontaneous symmetry breaking) would
never have been conceived. And if that problem had not been solved -
as it was in the early 1970s by the 1999 Nobel prize winners Gerard 't
Hooft and Martinus Veltman - we would not have the Standard Model,
with its many precise quantitative predictions that have been
experimentally validated in labs all over the world.

The roots of the Standard Model are in the Dirac equation. We are all
children of this equation. Without it there would be no
particle-physics labs and no Standard Model. Of course - and
fortunately for us - there are sound reasons to believe that there is
a lot of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The recent results on
neutrino oscillations (see Neutrino mass discovered) and the new
values for direct "CP-violation" in K-meson physics (CP and T
violations: new results leave open questions) are opening new avenues
beyond the Standard Model. However, none of these discoveries are
affected in any way by the gravitational force, which was Einstein's
main interest. "

http://physicsweb.org/article/world/13/3/2