“Superstring theories demand our spacetime dimension to be 10, which means we should reduce them to an effectively 4-dimensional theory. The standard solution of string compactification, as a generalization of Kaluza-Klein compactification, renders the extra six dimensions Calabi-Yau (CY). Thus, the study of Calabi-Yau and algebraic geometry has entered the field of theoretical physics.”
“I have noticed when I was younger, that lots of old men in the field couldn't understand new ideas very well, and resisted them with one method or another, and that they were very foolish in saying th...”
Superstring theory
“I don’t like that they’re not calculating anything. I don’t like that for anything that disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation – a fix-up to say 'Well. it still might be true'. For ...”
Superstring theory
“Of all the fields in fundamental physical theory, the gravitational field is picked out as controlling, in Einsteinian fashion, the structure of space-time. This is true even in a unified description ...”
Superstring theory
“Superstring theory starts off by proposing a new answer to an old question: what are the smallest, indivisible constituents of matter? For many decades, the conventional answer has been that matter is...”
Superstring theory
