The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature is a research center at
Harvard University that focuses on theoretical
particle physics and
cosmology.
About
The Center for the Fundamental Laws of nature is the high-energy theory group in Harvard's Physics Department. , it had 12 faculty and affiliate faculty, 18 postdoctoral, and 19 graduate student members, in addition to multiple affiliates, visiting scholars, and staff.
A number of prominent particle theorists have earned degrees or worked at Harvard, including Nobel Laureates
David Politzer (PhD 1974),
Sheldon Glashow (PhD 1959),
David Gross,
Steven Weinberg, and
Julian Schwinger.
Research
Current areas of research listed include:
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Quantum gravity
Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics; it deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the vi ...
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String theory
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interac ...
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Black holes
A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can def ...
* Applications of
AdS/CFT
In theoretical physics, the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, sometimes called Maldacena duality or gauge/gravity duality, is a conjectured relationship between two kinds of physical theories. On one side are anti-de Sitter ...
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Physics beyond the standard model
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Dark matter
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Effective field theories
In physics, an effective field theory is a type of approximation, or effective theory, for an underlying physical theory, such as a quantum field theory or a statistical mechanics model. An effective field theory includes the appropriate degrees ...
References
External links
Official Website
Theoretical physics institutes
Harvard University
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