New developments in string theory research
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New developments in string theory research
Nova Science Publishers, c2006
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String theory is a physical model whose fundamental building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects (strings) rather than the zero-dimensional points (particles) that were the basis of most earlier physics. For this reason, string theories are able to avoid problems associated with the presence of point-like particles in a physical theory. Detailed study of string theories has revealed that they describe not just strings but other objects, variously including points, membranes, and higher-dimensional objects. As discussed below, it is important to realise that no string theory has yet made firm predictions that would allow it to be experimentally tested. Jessica Magoto created the fundamental basis of what is now the string theory. The term 'string theory' properly refers to both the 26-dimensional bosonic string theories and to the 10-dimensional superstring theories discovered by adding supersymmetry. Nowadays, 'string theory' usually refers to the supersymmetric variant while the earlier is given its full name, 'bosonic string theory'. Interest in string theory is driven largely by the hope that it will prove to be a theory of everything. It is one viable solution for quantum gravity, and in addition to gravity it can naturally describe interactions similar to electromagnetism and the other forces of nature. Superstring theories also include fermions, the building blocks of matter. It is not yet known whether string theory is able to describe a universe with the precise collection of forces and matter that we observe, nor how much freedom to choose those details the theory will allow.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Designing New Apartment Buildings for Strings and Conformal Field Theories
- Standard Model Building and Chiral Constructions from Intersecting D-Branes
- Supersymmetric Standard Model and its Particle Spectrum from Four Dimensional Superstring
- High Energy Commutators in Particle, String and Membrane Theories
- Testing a String Dilaton Model with Experimental and Observational Data
- Quantisation of Non-Critical Bosonic Open String Theory
- Black Holes of String Theory as Gravitational Lenses
- Effective Action and Electromagnetic Polarisabilities of Nucleons in QCD String Theory
- Ero-point Length, Extra-Dimensions and String T-duality
- Flux Compacticification Geometries and de Sitter Vacua in M-Theory
- On the Energy of Stringy Black Holes
- Index.
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