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Superstring models excite theoretical physicists because they may unite the four fundamental forces. These theories are formulated in a ten-dimensional world of extraordinarily high energies. Recent work indicates how superstrings may nevertheless relate to our four-dimensional world and to laboratory experiments.
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Ellis, J. The superstring: theory of everything, or of nothing?. Nature 323, 595–598 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/323595a0
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