2002/07/09 by Edward Witten, Witten, Edward · 1 voice
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0207124
9 pp
arxiv created 2002/07/09 · openalex publication_date 2002/07/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The GUT-based approach to physics has been attractive since it was first put forward close to thirty years ago; it has been enriched by new ideas, notably supersymmetry and strings; and there are real hints that it is on the right track, notably from measurements of the weak mixing angle and neutrino masses. In this article (based on my Heinrich Hertz lecture at SUSY 2002 at DESY, June, 2002), some of the arguments for grand unification will be reviewed.