| Nobel Prize in Physics to Theory of Quarks | | Date Created: Oct 05, 2004, 04:08 PM |
Very exciting.
I still remember my graduate student years (at MIT in the late 1970's and early 1980's) attending lectures about quantum field theory and QCD. I was introduced to an amazing and wonderful concept of "asymptotic freedom" and "quark confinement."Of course, as a graduate student, we were introduced to these subjects as a natural consequence of an SU(3) gauge theory, but this was just the math. Scientists around the country and in my classrooms were drawing beautiful pictures of pi mesons being stretched with lines of gluon force tied to the confined pairs of quarks.
Please take the time to read the tutorial on the Nobel web site: Information for the Public. As well as read the short official press release.
Congratulations to Profs. Gross, Politzer, and Wilczek! |
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