Probing the String Landscape
Abstract
We are currently in the throes of a potentially huge paradigm shift in physics. Motivated by recent developments in string theory and the discovery of the so-called "string landscape", physicists are beginning to question the uniqueness of fundamental theories of physics and the methods by which such theories might be understood and investigated. In this colloquium, I will give a non-technical introduction to the nature of this paradigm shift and how it developed. I will also discuss some of the questions to which it has led, and the nature of the controversies it has spawned.
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- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 987386
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; STRING THEORY; PHYSICS; STRING LANDSCAPE
Citation Formats
Dienes, Keith. Probing the String Landscape. United States: N. p., 2009.
Web.
Dienes, Keith. Probing the String Landscape. United States.
Dienes, Keith. Tue .
"Probing the String Landscape". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/987386.
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year = {Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2009},
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