“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 of all the fields and all the particles of nature. Today, in superstring theory, we have the first respectable candidate for such a theory, apparently finite in perturbation theory and describing, roughly speaking, an infinite set of local fields, one of which is the gravitational field linked to the metric of space-time. If all the other fields are dropped, the theory becomes an Einsteinian theory of gravitation.”
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