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Physics Department Colloquium
Standard Quantum Field Theory is incompatible with the Higgs boson
Date: Friday, August 28th
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Place: Chamberlin 2241
Speaker: James Wells, University of Michigan
Abstract: I argue that the existence of the Higgs boson, discovered at CERN in 2012, implies the ultimate death of Standard (Wilsonian) Quantum Field Theory as the core theoretical framework for all of fundamental physics. The hints were already there before, witnessed in part, for example, by the string theory effort, but the Higgs boson seals it.
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