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Nature Physics 2, 73 - 74 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys220
Subject Categories: Particle physics | Astrophysics
String theory: On the shoulders of giants
Michael Green1
- Michael Green is in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. e-mail: m.b.green@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Abstract
In the early 1900s, the Solvay conferences famously brought together the early protagonists of quantum theory. At the latest meeting in the series, the issue was now the quantum structure of space–time itself.
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