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I should like to take a somewhat different and more sceptical view of the world than most of the lecturers here. You have already heard much about the successes of renormalizable gauge theories and grand unified and super symmetric schemes: my viewpoint is much narrower. I wish to concentrate on the standard electroweak model, and to ask the questions ‘how well do we know that it agrees with experiment and in particular, are we really sure that weak and electromagnetic interactions are unified?’
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Dombey, N. (1983). Are Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions Unified?. In: Capri, A.Z., Kamal, A.N. (eds) Particles and Fields 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3593-1_14
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