The World in Eleven Dimensions : Supergravity, supermembranes and M-theory

• Tác giả: M.J Duff
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0429176142
• ISBN-13: 978-0750306720
• ISBN-13: 978-1482268737
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 530.1423 Theories and mathematical physics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 1999
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (513 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 219275
• Chủ đề: 1. Nuclear physics; 2. Physics

Tóm tắt

A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose v