Adam -> RE: intermediate challenge ideas (Nov. 12 2010 23:30:03)
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ORIGINAL: Ron.M Anyway, if you decide to study Physics, you start of with simple concepts like Mass, Force, Momentum etc. You don't just suddenly begin with Quarks and Bosons and Strings, just because that's where the modern stuff begins. and the other stuff is "boring crap". [:-] Well, no, Ron, you wouldn't want to start with quarks, bosons, and strings. You'd want to start with basic canonical quantization - probably applied to the free Klein-Gordon scalar field, and maybe also a simple non-interacting Dirac field, just to get a feel for things - and then looking at the fermionic fields describing quarks and the strong force, putting it all together and quantizing the SU(3)xSU(2)xU(1) standard model gauge theory, then discussing the behavior of various simple string theory Lagrangians under quantization and consequences for quantum gravity. In summary, I think any palo would work, really.
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