Defend the integrity of physics

Defend the integrity of physics

Chief among the 'elegance will suffice' advocates are some string theorists. Because string theory is supposedly the 'only game in town' capable of unifying the four fundamental forces, they believe that it must contain a grain of truth even though it relies on extra dimensions t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2014-12, Vol.516 (7531), p.321
Hauptverfasser: Ellis, George, Silk, Joe
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Atoms & subatomic particles
Big Bang theory
Cosmology
Hypotheses
Mathematics
Particle physics
Philosophers
Physicists
Quantum field theory
Science
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
String theory
Theoretical physics
Universe
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Zusammenfassung:Chief among the 'elegance will suffice' advocates are some string theorists. Because string theory is supposedly the 'only game in town' capable of unifying the four fundamental forces, they believe that it must contain a grain of truth even though it relies on extra dimensions that we can never observe.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/516321a