Website review: String theory: From Newton to Einst...
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shewitt-au rated 3 months ago- From page: "To understand the ideas and aims of string theory, it's useful to look back and see how physics has developed from Newton's time to the present day. One crucial idea that has driven physics since Newton's time is that of unification: the attempt to explain seemingly different phenomena by a single overarching concept. Perhaps the first example of this came from Newton himself, who in his 1687 work Principia Mathematicae explained that the motion of the planets in the solar system, the motion of the Moon around the Earth, and the force that holds us to the Earth are all part of the same thing: the force of gravity. We take this for granted today, but pre-Newton the connection between a falling apple and the orbit of the Moon would have been far from obvious and quite amazing."
- Heritas rated 3 months ago
- Stunning article. From Newton to String Theory through Einstein and Schrödinger
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"The mathematics behind string theory is long and complicated, but it has been worked out in detail. But has anyone ever seen such strings?The honest answer is "no". The current estimate of the size of these strings is about 10-34m, far smaller than we can see today,even at CERN. Still, string theory is so far the only known way to combine gravity and quantum mechanics, and its mathematical elegance is for many scientists sufficient reason to keep pursuing it." - Stunning article. From Newton to String Theory through Einstein and Schrödinger
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