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LECTURE 42
     questions after lecture

first answer these

now think about these

  • What important questions about physics can't we answer yet? Name three or four.
  • How is high energy related to early time?
  • What is a symmetry? Name three or four.
  • What happens to the four couplings at high energy?
  • What is meant by grand unified field theory (GUTs)? What is the GUTs scale?
  • What is the Planck length? What happens there?
  • What is a phase transition in the early universe?
  • What does the neutral weak boson Z-zero have to do with unified field theory?

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Please email any questions, comments, or suggestions to Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.

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