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String theory was originally developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a never completely successful theory of hadrons, the subatomic particles like the proton and neutron that feel the strong interaction.
Hundreds of physicists started to work on string theory as the most promising idea to unify physical theories. [44] The revolution was started by a discovery of anomaly cancellation in type I string theory via the Green–Schwarz mechanism (named after Michael Green and John H. Schwarz) in 1984.
String theory, in particle physics, a theory that attempts to merge quantum mechanics with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The name string theory comes from the modeling of subatomic particles as tiny one-dimensional ’stringlike’ entities.
A group of physicists took a mathematical technique developed (and later abandoned) by quantum godfather Werner Heisenberg and expanded it. In that expansion, they found the first...
Half a century ago, theorist Gabriele Veneziano visited CERN and wrote a paper that wound up marking the beginning of string theory. Gabriele Veneziano, photographed at CERN in July, worked at CERN for more than 30 years and led the theory division between 1994 and 1997. (Image: CERN)
In the field of particle physics, string theory brings together quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
String theory is a framework that physicists use to describe how forces usually conceptualized on a gigantic level, like gravity, could affect tiny objects like electrons and protons.
Abstract: This set of notes is based on the course “Introduction to String Theory” which was taught by Prof. Kostas Skenderis in the spring of 2009 at the University of Amsterdam.
Victor de Schwanberg/Alamy. String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing...
The book deals with the history of string theory, beginning with its origins in the Veneziano model of strong interactions, and ending in the mid-90s with M-theory and the “Second Superstring Revolution”. It’s a good serious scientific history, explaining in technical detail exactly how the theory developed, with good explanations of the ...