String Theory and the Real World

ISBN-13: 9781681744889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 70 str.

Gordon Kane

Opis

Explains why "string theory" may provide the comprehensive underlying theory that describes and explains our world. It is an enthusiastic view of how compactified string/M-theories (plus data that may be reachable) seem to have the possibilities of leading to a comprehensive underlying theory of particle physics and cosmology, perhaps soon.

Spis treści

• Introduction: the Standard Models
• The Planck scale—compactification
• Testing theories in physics, including string theories
• The mass–energy scales of particle physics and cosmology—the 'hierarchy' problem—supersymmetry—hidden sectors
• The scales we need to explain
• How would we decide we had a good theory to describe and explain our world?
• Brief topics: views from our perspective
• Perspectives