Random Dynamics, Three Generations, and Skewness

Abstract

The two talks I shall present here will in a way be almost the same one, the second time given in reverse order. In the first one—called random dynamics—I shall present a project which I and others have worked on for several years.^1,2 We seek to derive the already known laws of nature as a result of almost any very complicated fundamental model. In the second talk we look at the Standard Model—especially the structure of the gauge group—and, inspired by that, seek to get information on the fundamental laws of nature at a deeper level. I, of course, want to be able to say that nature points in the direction of a random rather chaotic fundamental model, and thus the second talk becomes number one in reverse order. A major prediction^3,4—which I want to stress we made before the LEP experiments confirmed it—is that there should be only three generations of quarks and leptons!