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2004-08-20-deeper

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"In the last 30 years, physicists have achieved a profound understanding of the fundamental particles and the physical laws that govern matter, energy, space and time. Researchers have subjected this 'Standard Model' to countless experimental tests; and, again and again, its predictions have held true. The series of experimental and theoretical breakthroughs that combined to produce the Standard Model can truly be celebrated as one of the great scientific triumphs of the 20th century.

"Now, in a development that some have compared to Copernicus’s recognition that the earth is not the center of the solar system, startling new data have revealed that only five percent of the universe is made of normal, visible matter described by the Standard Model. Ninety-five percent of the universe consists of dark matter and dark energy whose fundamental nature is a mystery. The Standard Model's orderly and elegant view of the universe must be incorporated into a deeper theory that can explain the new phenomena. The result will be a revolution in particle physics as dramatic as any that have come before."

Quantum Universe: The Revolution in 21st-Century Particle Physics

Auf Anfrage des DOE und der NSF von einer Task Force unter Vorsitz des SLAC-Direktors erstellter Report zum Stand der Dinge. [ Ø FORK • ]

String Theory, Supersymmetry, [create Neutralino]s, [create Higgs Field], [create Dark Energy], [create Antimatter], JDEM, CP Violation, QCD, TeV

"Although the existence of dark matter was suggested in the 1930s, only in the last 10 to 15 years have scientists made substantial progress in understanding its properties, mostly by establishing what it is not."

"Ubiquitous, elusive and full of surprises, neutrinos are the most mysterious of the known particles in the universe. They interact so weakly with other particles that trillions of them pass through our bodies each second without leaving a trace."

"At the microscopic scale, physicists have long known that 'empty' space is not empty; it is filled by a field that gives quarks and leptons their mass. In the Standard Model, this field is called the Higgs; [...]"