Microcosm in spanish series#

Microcosm in spanish series#

The PASCOS series of international symposia was started in the early 1990s in the US to recognize this interplay. The interface of particle physics, string theory and cosmology is thus a highly active field of research at the frontiers of human knowledge. The recent developments in string theory offer us the best hope of addressing these issues.

We would like to follow the history of the universe right back to the instant of the Big Bang – and even beyond, where the standard tool of quantum field theory breaks down. The discovery of the Higgs boson(s) and supersymmetric (SUSY) particles should, likewise, throw light on the nature of the phase transition that the universe experienced during those first few picoseconds – as well as on the nature of the cold dark matter (CDM) that permeates the universe today as a relic of its early history. Making heavy particles such as the W and Z bosons and the top quark, as well as studying their interactions in the laboratory, helps us retrace the history of the universe to within a few picoseconds of its beginning.

Recreating them in the laboratory is like recreating dinosaurs as in Jurassic Park, but is much more significant because it helps us to trace the very early history of the universe. It follows from the basic principles of uncertainty and mass-energy equivalence, which imply that when we probe deep inside subatomic space, we inevitably come across states of very high energy and mass that would have abounded in the early history of the universe. The guiding spirit behind the series of annual symposia on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS) is the unification of the microcosm with the macrocosm. The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia opera house and cultural centre in Valencia, an excursion destination for PASCOS 2010. PASCOS 2010 explores the interface of particle physics, string theory and cosmology.