TL;DR
This review explores the historical development and recent conjectures in gauge theories, symmetry breaking, and gauge/string duality, reflecting on 40 years of theoretical physics progress and offering new insights.
Contribution
It provides a historical overview and introduces new comments, opinions, and conjectures on gauge theories, symmetry breaking, and gauge/string correspondence.
Findings
Historical insights into spontaneous symmetry breaking
New conjectures on gauge/string/space-time correspondence
Personal opinions on future directions in theoretical physics
Abstract
This is a review of topics which haunted me for the last 40 years, starting with spontaneous symmetry breaking and ending with gauge/string/space-time correspondence. While the first part of this article is mostly historical, the second contains some comments, opinions and conjectures which are new. This work is prepared for the volume " Fifty Years of the Yang- Mills Theory"
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