Archive for December 6th, 2006
The operating principle of theoretical physics in the past half century has been symmetry. The language of this operating principle is group theory. An abstract mathematical group acts linearly on a set of particles as a ‘representation’ of that group. Faithful representations preserve the subtleties of the abstract group. (Semi-simple groups are reducible, i.e. they [...]
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