Open AccessWhat every physicist should know about string theory
Author(s) -
Edward Witten
Publication year - 2015
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/pt.3.2980
Subject(s) - physicist , theory of everything (philosophy) , theoretical physics , string (physics) , quantum gravity , plague (disease) , string theory , physics , quantum , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , philosophy , epistemology , history , archaeology
Some of nature’s rhymes—the appearance of similar structures in different areas of physics—underlie the way that string theory potentially unifies gravity with the other forces of nature and eliminates the ultraviolet divergences that plague quantum gravity.
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