Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 50 (5) , 28-33
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881616
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe some themes in theoretical physics that developed independently for many years, in some cases for decades, and then converged rather suddenly beginning around 1994–95. The convergence produced an upheaval sometimes called “the second superstring revolution.” It is as significant in its own way as “the first superstring revolution,” the period around 1984–85 when the potential of string theory to give a unified description of natural law was first widely appreciated.Keywords
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