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- Title
String theory: Back to basics.
- Authors
Nicolai, Hermann
- Abstract
The article reports on the development in the string theory which offers evidence that it does not only a theory of everything but a theory of something very specific. The developments indicate that the theory focuses on the physics of interactions mediated by the strong nuclear force. The theory was born in the 1960s when physicists attempted to arrange baffling wealth of phenomena. Unfortunately, the theory turned out to have many flaws while the arrival of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the quantum-field theory dealt the final blow to such early attempts. However, the new approach was first suggested by Juan Martin Malcadena in 1998, when he conjectured a link between a close relative of QCD and a superstring living in a ten-dimensional curved space-time.
- Subjects
STRING models (Physics); THEORY of everything (Physics); SUPERSTRING theories; NUCLEAR reactions; PARTICLES (Nuclear physics); QUANTUM electrodynamics; NUCLEAR physics; CONTINUUM mechanics; PHYSICS; MALCADENA, Juan Martin
- Publication
Nature, 2007, Vol 449, Issue 7164, p797
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/449797a