John Carlos Baez on Nostr: Whoa!!!! Showing that two quantum field theories in common use actually make rigorous ...
Whoa!!!! Showing that two quantum field theories in common use actually make rigorous sense: Yang-Mills theory, and QCD, which is Yang-Mills theory plus fermions (namely quarks).
This will be HUGE if true.
For many decades, mathematical physics has been stuck on this problem.
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