Unified theories of elementary particles

FEB 01, 1966

Participants at a topical conference are hopeful that quantum field theory may elucidate the symmetry and interactions of the smallest bits of matter

DOI: 10.1063/1.3048051

Sidney A. Bludman

THEORISTS AT A RECENT SEMINAR on unified theories of elementary particles were brought together by continued interest in more or less realistic application of quantum field theory to elementaryparticle physics. Thus they do not share the fears of Freeman J. Dyson (expressed in last June’s PHYSICS TODAY)—about the relevance of field theory to strong‐interaction physics nor his fear that field theorists are to become an isolated band of specialists like specialists in general relativity.

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Sidney A. Bludman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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