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" WHY STRING THEORY? "
JOSEPH CONLON
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755059
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JOSEPH CONLON
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WHY STRING THEORY?\ JOSEPH CONLON
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[Place of publication not identified] : CRC Press, 2017
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1315272369
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: 1482242494
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: 9781315272368
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: 9781482242492
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Why?The Long Wait Scales of Science: Little and Large Big Lessons of Physics SPACE AND TIME ARE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH SPACETIME IS DYNAMICALTHE WORLD IS DESCRIBED BY QUANTUM MECHANICS THE WORLD REALLY, HONESTLY, TRULY IS DESCRIBED BY QUANTUM MECHANICS NATURE LIKES SYMMETRIES THE UNIVERSE WAS YOUNG, SMOOTH AND HOT, BUT IS NOW OLD, COLD AND WRINKLY DIFFERENT CAN BE THE SAME NATURE IS SMARTER THAN WE ARE The Truth Is Out There What?What Was String Theory? THE BIRTH THE NAMING CEREMONY THE WILDERNESS YEARS HARBINGERS OF GREAT JOY THE LIMELIGHT THE THEORY FORMERLY KNOWN AS STRINGS What Is String Theory?QUANTUM FIELD THEORY BY ANY OTHER NAME THE MISANTHROPIC LANDSCAPE FIFTY YEARS ON What For?Direct Experimental Evidence for String Theory Why Strings? Quantum Field Theory THE PROBLEM OF STRONG COUPLING THE ADS/CFT CORRESPONDENCE APPLICATIONS TO COLLISIONS OF HEAVY IONS APPLICATIONS TO CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS Why Strings? Mathematics PEER RESPECT OF MONSTERS AND MOONSHINE MIRROR SYMMETRY CULTS IN PHYSICS Why Strings? Cosmology and Particle Physics EXTRA DIMENSIONS AND MODULI WHAT MAKES MODULI AND WHAT MODULI MAKE AXIONLIKE PARTICLES COSMIC MAGNETISM EXPERIMENTAL ENNUI Why Strings? Quantum Gravity COUNTING BLACK HOLES SINGULARITIES AND TOPOLOGY CHANGE THE ULTIMATE COLLIDER Who?A Thousand Flowers Blooming: Styles of Science THE REVOLUTIONARIES VORSPRUNG DURCH TECHNIK STOCKHOLM OR BUST THE MOST SUBLIME BRAHMINATE OF PRINCETON IL FAUT CULTIVER NOTRE JARDIN #EpicFail? Criticisms of String Theory Why String Theory? REASONS FOR SUCCESS RIVALS AND COMPETITORS PREDICTING THE FUTURE
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QC794.6.S85J674 2017
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