Abstract
Electromagnetic duality is an idea with a long pedigree that addresses a number of old questions, for example:
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Why does space-time possess four dimensions?
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Why is electric charge quantised?
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What is the origin of mass?
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What is the internal structure of the elementary particles?
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How are quarks confined?
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Olive, D.I. (1999). Exact Electromagnetic Duality. In: Baulieu, L., Di Francesco, P., Douglas, M., Kazakov, V., Picco, M., Windey, P. (eds) Strings, Branes and Dualities. NATO ASI Series, vol 520. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_1
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