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Modern theories of fundamental interactions describe strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions as quantum field theories with certain kinds of embedded internal symmetries called ‘gauge symmetries’. This article introduces quantum field theories and gauge symmetries to the uninitiated.
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Palash B Pal is at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. His academic books include Massive neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics with R N Mohapatra, A first book of Quantum Field Theory with A Lahiri and An introductory course of Statistical Mechanics. He has also written extensively in Bengali on scientific topic for general readers.
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Pal, P.B. At the root of things. Reson 14, 544–567 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-009-0064-y
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