In this article I summarize some aspects of the current status of the field of high energy physics and discuss how the next generation of high energy colliders will aid in furthering our basic understanding of elementary particles and interactions among them, by shedding light on the mechanism for the spontaneous breakdown of the Electroweak Symmetry.

During the past one hundred years three related elementary particles– the electron, the muon, and the tau–were discovered by very different scientific techniques. The author, who received the Wolf Prize and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the tau, uses this history to discuss certainty and uncertainty in the practice of science. While the emphasis is on the practice of scientific research,...

In this talk I briefly explain the concept of the structure function of a photon (the best known boson). Then I review some of the current experimental evidence which confirms the existence of ‘strong’ interactions of photon suggested by this idea. I end by pointing out how the photon ‘structure’ has important implications for the interactions of high energy photons and hence for the design of ...

Particle physics aims to understand the universe around us. The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describes the basic structure of matter and the forces through which matter interacts, to the extent we have been able to probe thus far. However, it leaves some big questions unanswered. Some are within the SM itself, such as why there are so many fundamental particles and why they have diff...

The fri ctional force on a Brownian motion particle can be expressed by means of the time· correlation of the fluctuating force on the particle . We show that this method, applied to a spherical particle in a vi scous incompress ible fluid , leads to Stokes ' Law. The calculation is based on the theory of hydrodynamic flu ctuations due to Landau and Lifs hitz, and on a hydrodynamic theorem due ...

The understanding of flavour dynamics is one of the key aims of elementary particle physics. The last 15 years have witnessed the triumph of the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism, which describes all flavour changing transitions of quarks in the Standard Model. This important milestone has been reached owing to a series of experiments, in particular to those operating at the so-called B factories, at...

It is discussed how the Weyl geometric generalization of Riemannian geometry relates to Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory and how it leads to a weak generalization of Einstein gravity. The generalization of geometry goes back to Weyl’s proposal of 1918; the generalization of gravity was proposed by Omote, Utiyama, Dirac and others in the 1970s. Here we reconsider the conceptual potential of this approa...

Several modification of Einstein’s general relativity have been proposed and extensively studied so far by many cosmologists to unify gravitation and many other effects in the universe. Barber 1 has produced two continuous self-creation theories by modifying the Brans-Dicke theory and general relativity. The modified theories create the universe out of self-contained gravitational and matter fi...

The top quark, the W-boson and the Higg boson form an interesting triptych of elementary particles. In the Standard Model knowing the mass of two of these particles, usually the top quark and W-boson, we can predict the mass of the third, the Higgs boson. Therefore in this proceedings I will primarily cover the following topics, top quark physics, W-boson mass and the light Higgs boson at the p...

The main motivation of this article is to try to address such questions as why our universe is as it is from the smallest elementary particles to stars, galaxies and the largest cosmos. We attempt to offer our view on this fundamental problem by introducing energy levels for leptons and quarks as well as for hadrons, and by exploring both essential characteristics of four forces derived using t...