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As recounted in The Elegant Universe's TV version, in the second episode, "The String's the Thing", section "Wrestling with String Theory", Green describes finding 496 on each side of the equals sign during a stormy night filled with lightning, and fondly recalls joking that "the gods are trying to prevent us from completing this calculation".
The number 496 is a very important number in superstring theory.In 1984, Michael Green and John H. Schwarz realized that one of the necessary conditions for a superstring theory to make sense is that the dimension of the gauge group of type I string theory must be 496.
The history of string theory spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers, string theory has developed into a broad and varied subject with connections to quantum gravity, particle and condensed matter physics, cosmology, and pure mathematics.
In string theory, the left-moving and the right-moving excitations of strings are completely decoupled for a closed string, [4] and it is possible to construct a string theory whose left-moving (counter-clockwise) excitations are treated as a bosonic string propagating in D = 26 dimensions, while the right-moving (clockwise) excitations are treated as a superstring in D = 10 dimensions.
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions to string theory, topological quantum field theory, and various areas of mathematics. He is a professor emeritus in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton . [ 4 ]
Invisible string theory is the idea that you and your soulmate are "connected through an invisible string or a thread" and it's "written in the universe" that you’ll be together one day, says ...
What is ‘the invisible string theory’? Emily Reed Niesen (@emreedniesen), 21, took an interest in the invisible string theory after discovering it on TikTok. The notion that people can be ...
He was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 [9] and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize , [ 12 ] the 2018 Oskar Klein Medal , [ 13 ] and the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for ...