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Some BIG IDEAS from summer conferences. The emergence of space A model for quarks, leptons, gauge bosons All particles in one representation –E 8 Photons emerging from non-gauge interactions. Conferences are often the place to spread new ideas. Supersymmetry Grand Unification Baryogenesis - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Some BIG IDEAS from summer conferencesSome BIG IDEAS from summer conferences
1) The emergence of space2) A model for quarks, leptons, gauge bosons3) All particles in one representation –E8
4) Photons emerging from non-gauge interactions
SupersymmetryGrand UnificationBaryogenesis TechnicolorKaluza KleinString TheoryInflationMultiverseBranesLarge Extra Dimensions
Conferences are often the place to spread new ideas
There have not been many big ideas lately at regular conferences
The emergence of space
“Quantum graphity”
Fotini Markopoulou - Perimeter
Basic idea: - think of spacetime as a lattice of points -endowed with a Hamiltonian - maximally connected space - at low energy, Minkowski space emerges
New idea for cosmology, locality etc
Phenomenology of locality:
Locality, causality are properties of all regular QFTs - but could be violated in some theories
Gravity: -distances subject to quantum fluctuations - violation should be 1/MP+ suppressed
Branes:
Fotini’s space: - major violations possible - black hole example
A model for all the particles and interactions
Sundance Bilson-Thompson - Perimeter
Basic idea: - like composite models – what makes up quarks etc - novel outlook – maybe also explains interactions
Problems: - no right handed neutrino - need Majorana mass, Higgs triplet - no Higgs so far - gravity missing (but may be part of LQG)
Potential promise: - rationale for the world that we see - reframes the problems
But a lot left to do - math of braided networks
All the particles in one representation Garrett Lisi - FQXi
Basic idea: - in genre of finding a unified theory - everything (including gravity) fits in one rep of E8
Hopes and goals: - perhaps describe all interactions as “emergent” - logical way to build a finite theory - Wen also has paper on emergent gravity
Problems: - no chiral fermions yet - Weinberg Witten theorem for gravity?? - no Higgs