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QCD sheds considerable light on several of the most basic features of the natural world including the origin of mass, the feebleness of gravity, the extent to which the properties of matter can be determined conceptually, the possible utility of the anthropic principle, and the meta-theoretic notions of effectiveness and computability. I discuss these applications here.
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The material in Sections 1 and 2 largely overlaps corresponding parts of my contributionFour Big Questions With Pretty Good Answersto the Heisenberg centennial symposium, hep-ph/0201222, with some changes and additions. Also, the generalized axion cosmology alluded to in Section 3 is discussed there in much more detail.
For some relevant discussion, and an extensive set of references, see C. HoganReviews of Modern Physics72 1149–1161 (2000).
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Wilczek, F. (2003). QCD and Natural Philosophy. In: Iagolnitzer, D., Rivasseau, V., Zinn-Justin, J. (eds) International Conference on Theoretical Physics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7907-1_17
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