string vacua and phenomenology
A random vibrating string
Click the yellow picture twice to see an animation (2 MB). Sorry, the picture is kind of rotating because I forgot 1/2 of the modes. But all the othe…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Spurious three-loop diagrams
Sean Carroll et al. wrote a paper - see Cosmic Variance - whose main point is to superimpose several graphs indicating the allowed strength of two p…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Stabilized heterotic Calabi-Yau shapes
Lara Anderson, an expert in Japanese martial arts and an ex-Rhodes scholar, and three collaborators - James Gray, Andres Lukas, and Burt Ovrut - have…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Does quantum gravity make QED asymptotically free?
Nature is clearly not an expert journal for high-energy physics or a source of the most important articles. We've seen another piece of evidence…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Stringless, recursive calculations in string theory
Rutger H. Boels and Tobias Hansen of DESY, Hamburg released a very interesting 66-page-long hep-th preprint today, String theory in target space They…
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Fermion masses from a Δ(54) heterotic orbifold
Stephen King, the King of Horror, didn't receive the Nobel prize in literature for his 200 short stories yesterday – the award went to Austria an…
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Stable AdS flux vacua must be supersymmetric: a conjecture
Famous physicists Hiroši Ooguri and Cumrun Vafa proposed a new branch of the Swampland program in their new paper Non-supersymmetric AdS and the Swam…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Ways to discover matrix string theory
...more precisely screwing string theory... The 5,250+ TRF blog entries discuss various topics, mostly scientific ones, including minor advances. Ho…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Pyramid scheme
My ex-adviser posted a written version of his talk dedicated to Murray Gell-Mann for his 80th birthday , Holographic space-time and its phenomenologi…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Strings 2007: website
Update: Jacques Distler is live-blogging: Monday The official website of Strings 2007 (Mon-Fri) Strings 2007 video blogspot site There are menus un…
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string vacua and phenomenology
Gordon Kane, string theory, and the real world
A reader has pointed out that Gordon Kane's nice November 2010 article in Physics Today , String theory and the real world (PDF, JPG ) has been …
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string vacua and phenomenology
Lisa Randall's lecture & technicolor
I just returned from the first lecture delivered by Lisa Randall that I attended - her course is about the physics beyond the Standard Model. Today, …
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