Gerard t Hooft — Questions and answers

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What is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) doing deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border?

Choices

  1. A. Building new types of robots.
  2. B. Accelerating particles to smash them together. ✓
  3. C. Digging for ancient treasures.
  4. D. Growing giant plants.

Answer: B. Accelerating particles to smash them together.

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What was a big problem that threatened the Standard Model for a long time?

Choices

  1. A. It couldn't predict anything.
  2. B. It only described animals.
  3. C. It had mathematical inconsistencies. ✓
  4. D. It was too easy to understand.

Answer: C. It had mathematical inconsistencies.

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What did Veltman and 't Hooft's work show about the troubling 'infinities' in non-abelian gauge theories?

Choices

  1. A. The infinities made the theories impossible to use.
  2. B. The infinities could be systematically removed. ✓
  3. C. The infinities were just pretend.
  4. D. The infinities helped build rockets.

Answer: B. The infinities could be systematically removed.

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How did 't Hooft and Veltman's proof help the Standard Model?

Choices

  1. A. It made it confusing and hard to use.
  2. B. It showed it was a robust and predictive scientific framework. ✓
  3. C. It made it disappear completely.
  4. D. It turned it into a bedtime story.

Answer: B. It showed it was a robust and predictive scientific framework.

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What important particles were discovered in 1983 at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron?

Choices

  1. A. Invisible aliens.
  2. B. W and Z bosons. ✓
  3. C. Tiny blue marbles.
  4. D. Pieces of the moon.

Answer: B. W and Z bosons.

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What was the final important particle discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider?

Choices

  1. A. The Big Bang.
  2. B. The Higgs boson. ✓
  3. C. The W boson.
  4. D. A new planet.

Answer: B. The Higgs boson.

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What big award did Gerard 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman receive in 1999 for their important work?

Choices

  1. A. A gold medal for swimming.
  2. B. The Nobel Prize in Physics. ✓
  3. C. An award for best teacher.
  4. D. A trophy for building blocks.

Answer: B. The Nobel Prize in Physics.

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