Is String Theory Correct (and when will it be proven?) - Sixty Symbols

2025-01-14

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Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla answer a viewer question about the rights/wrongs of String Theory and its proof ... More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓

Ed and Tony are physicists at The University of Nottingham and Sixty Symbols stalwarts.

More from this Q and A session: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNLpmQg4SSZ6tMsyDldilnA

Ed: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/ed.copeland

Tony: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla

Tony makes the case for string theory in an earlier video: /youtube/video/Q8ccXzM3x8A

Ed discusses Cosmic Superstrings: /youtube/video/03vIkZR2hNY

More Tony videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBPJmX64Jay51cdZTKMz4ACs

More Ed videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNtF1y-sneLuyCTE-Mda561

Paper referred to by Tony is Uniqueness Criteria for the Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03362

Ed co-authored paper - Percolating cosmic string networks from kination: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.083537

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