Fifty years ago, Chen-Ning Yang and Robert Mills imagined a new kind of force that could affect the particles inside an atomic nucleus. Their force would be a generalization of the notions of electricity and magnetism.
In those days, however, experimental observations seemed to give a quite different picture, and the relevance of the "Yang-Mills fields" remained obscure. Now, we know that the effects of these fields are quite different from what was thought, and that indeed practically all sub-atomic forces are exactly of the Yang-Mills form. The physical phenomena caused by these forces are rich in structure, and the last 50 years has brought us a lot of understanding.
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Meritus Mandarin Hotel (Ballroom)
333 Orchard Road
(Location Map)
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| Date: |
2 March 2005 (Wednesday) |
| Time: |
7.00 pm |
For inquiries, please contact:
Ms SQ Low 6466-5775 ext. 407
E-Mail: sqlow@wspc.com
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Admission is Free
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