String Theory

The tinny invisible strings of string theory were supposed to be the fundamental building blocks of all the matter in the universe.

"This interpretation of string theory might be close to the truth, " Dr. Witten said. But that truth comes at a cost.

Until recently, it was generally agreed that this would turn out to be a form of string theory.

Until recently, the widespread expectation was that some version of an idea called string theory would prevail.

The String theory really was this so-called theory of everything. Five theories of everything seem like an embarrassment of britches.

Although it hasn't had the same media exposure, loop quantum gravity is so far the only real rival to string theory.

When String theory fell apart, not everyone was distraught. Some people even seem to relish the fact.

Yeah. Well, it's just some quantum mechanics, with a little string theory doodling around the edges.

Conversely, it would be a boost for those that do - including some derived from string theory and something called matrix theory.

Everything, it seemed, had been tried to save string theory. Well, almost everything.

He had campaigned to keep string theorists out of the Harvard physics department and when it embraced string theory, he left.

Most of us are happy to admit that we do not understand, say, string theory in physics, yet we are all convinced we understand evolution.

With addition of one extra dimension, string theory made sense again, but it has become a very different kind of theory.

Yet so far string theory offers no explanation for the observed values of the constants.

String theory smooths out the mathematical inconsistencies that currently exist between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Horowitz said that he and his co-authors used tools from string theory to develop the gravity model of a superconductor.

Several groups of physicists independently announced that string theory can completely solve the problem of a quantum black hole.

Arguments from string theory, cosmology and observational astronomy have led some cosmologists to suggest we live in one of many universes.

Recently, though, string theory has acquired a rival, known as loop quantum gravity.

This can be measured in a lab, and the results will demonstrate whether string theory actually works.

While String Theory was in its ascendancy, few took seriously the eleventh dimension, but the super gravity guys never gave up hope.

String theory, which unites gravity with quantum mechanics, offered the hope of explaining the attenuated cosmological constant.

Historically, angular momentum is what clued in physicists to the quantum-gravitational implications of string theory.

String theory elegantly reconciles the otherwise competing rules of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Sheldon is a string theorist, and string theory also predicts the existence of magnetic monopoles.

Other theories of quantum gravity, including string theory and loop quantum gravity, are far more difficult for newcomers to embrace.

In string theory, particles are vibrating, multidimensional "strings" .

A new study says string theory can be tested by observing the behavior of entangled quantum particles.

Then physicists would have to turn to more radical postulates , such as those of string theory.

In the pre-big bang scenario, it occurs before the bang as a natural outcome of the novel symmetries of string theory.

In spite of a present lack of such evidence, Jackson is confident string theory will weather the storm.

Over four chapters he gives a masterly overview of String Theory, its history, present status and contemporary issues.

In string theory we have several extra dimensions, which results in many more adjustable parameters.

Some string theorists think the extra dimensions of space-time, which are predicted in string theory, may take this shape.

Never mind the niceties of string theory and its implications for physics.

What's more, the mathematics of string theory also rely on extra spatial dimensions, which humans could not experience directly.

Using string theory math, Duff predicted the pattern that would occur when four quantum bits are entangled with each other.

For instance, string theory predicts the existence of extra dimensions - six, seven, even 20 or more.

Our current best unification of Quantum Theory and General Relativity is String Theory.

String theory, currently a popular idea, holds that the universe is made up of tiny vibrating strings.

A renormalized quantum field theory of general relativity has not yet been achieved, although various forms of string theory seem promising.

For example, black holes modelled by string theory in the bulk were equivalent to clouds of hot gas modelled by QFT on the surface.

Another hallmark of string theory is the positing of additional dimensions.

the fingerprints of string theory in the aftermath of the big bang.

And as with string theory, a true experimental test is still some way off.

String theory, one route to quantum gravity, gives an unsatisfactorily vague answer: space can have anything from zero to 10 dimensions.

Because of this technical limitation, tests of string theory have remained elusive until now.

The new rules return pensions to the complexity of string theory.

Greene thinks the key to understanding these multiverses comes from string theory, the area of physics he has studied for the past 25 years.

"Holographic space-time is used in certain approaches to quantising gravity that have a strong connection to string theory, " says Cramer.

I'm betting my career that it's string theory.

Refereeing a string theory paper is a job that requires a specialist with a broad academic background.

So string theory remains just that: a theory.

He has a lengthy discussion about the controversies surrounding String Theory, which he describes as "speculative" ;

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

String theory of quantum mechanics theory of relativity

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe

Deformations in Topological String Theory

International Conference on String Theory in Beijing

Two Revolutions and the Philosophical Reflection on String Theory

SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE FIELD THEORY AND STRING THEORY

Entropy Calculations for Black Holes with String Theory

Enumerative Geometry and String Theory

The Searching of String Theory and the Science Revolution in New Century

Challenges in string theory and cosmology

The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory;

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory

The Role of Conformal Field Theory in String Theory

Some Basic Analysis in String Theory

A First Course in String Theory