Sunday, September 29, 2019

Recent advancements in fundamental physics


Recent experimental discoveries...


  • 2016: Discovery of gravitational waves,
  • 2013: Discovery of SM Higgs boson,
  • 1990-2015: Establishing the SM of cosmology,
  • 1998: Discovery of late time acceleration of the Universe,
  • Evidence in favour of existence of Cold Dark Matter,
  • 1995: Top quark,
  • Neutrino masses.

Recent (last 40 years) major theoretical advancements...

  • Mid 2010s: Amplitudes;
  • Early 2000s: Moduli stabilisation in string theory,
  • 1997: Dualities in general and AdS/CFT correspondence in particular,
  • Mid 1990s: Microscopic calculation of entropy of BHs,
  • Early 1980s: Cosmic inflation.

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