by \u00a9Fernando Caracena 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think that theoretical physics is currently going through some changes that may put it on the right track. I have been watching Neil Turok<\/a> the cosmologist from South Africa. He discusses the current state of Theoretical Physics in an interview here<\/a>. In another, he discusses some of his research on the Quantum Universe<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The issues in elementary particle physics have come back to where my interests were when I received my PhD in theoretical physics at Case Western Reserve University. My task for a thesis was to solve for a minimally electrodynamically coupled vector boson field, which was originally proposed by Alexandru Proca<\/a> (1897-1955) and modified later by Corbin and Schwinger, who later added another interaction term. All attempts at the time to find a theory that did not have an infinite tending photon-vector scattering cross sections had result in failure. My task was to develop a theory a charged vector boson , which would be minimally coupled to the electromagnetic fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Actually, my researches had taken me wide of the problem to Yang -Mills<\/a> theory and Goldstone Bosons. Abruptly graduate school was not fun anymore. I decided to solve my thesis problem and get my PhD and go out into the world. This I did quickly by applying physical intuition. My advisor. Joseph Weinberg said, \"Fernando! What took you so long.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by \u00a9Fernando Caracena 2024 I think that theoretical physics is currently going through some changes that may put it on the right track. I have been watching Neil Turok the cosmologist from South Africa. He discusses the current state of … Continue reading