Finding a theory that unifies all interactions among particles, including gravitation, is the Holy Grail of physics, said SFI Distinguished Fellow and co-founder Murray Gell-Mann during a recent visit to Singapore.
"It's a very exciting hunt, the hunt for further unification," he said during a March 5 presentation at NTU (National University of Singapore).
“We can’t rule (the existence of sub-quark particles) out, but we can say there’s no evidence of it,” he said on the question of whether quarks are the most basic constituents of atoms. “There’s no particular reason for believing in it, but who knows?”
He also discussed the value of cross-disciplinary collaboration and the "Santa Fe model."
Read the article in Today Online - Singapore (March 8, 2013)