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Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics

Author(s) -

Edward Witten

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

physics today

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594

H-Index - 112

eISSN - 1945-0699

pISSN - 0031-9228

DOI - 10.1063/1.881616

Subject(s) - superstring theory , theoretical physics , duality (order theory) , spacetime , string (physics) , string theory , convergence (economics) , physics , natural law , natural (archaeology) , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical physics , quantum mechanics , supersymmetry , pure mathematics , history , economics , economic growth , archaeology

The purpose of this article is to describe some themes in theoretical physics that developed independently for many years, in some cases for decades, and then converged rather suddenly beginning around 1994–95. The convergence produced an upheaval sometimes called “the second superstring revolution.” It is as significant in its own way as “the first superstring revolution,” the period around 1984–85 when the potential of string theory to give a unified description of natural law was first widely appreciated.

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