Elementary Particles – Fundamental Interactions

Abstract

The great success of physics, giving us the illusion that we are indeed able to discover the secrets of nature, is probably based on our ability to explain the properties of complex systems in terms of the interactions between a few basic building blocks.

Science is always wrong:

it never solves a problem

without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

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