PIRSA:08120000 Scientific Series Quantum Fields and Strings

DOI10.48660/08120000

Series: Colloquium

(2008). Probing the String Landscape: Implications, Applications, and Altercations. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/08120000

Probing the String Landscape: Implications, Applications, and Altercations. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 10, 2008, https://pirsa.org/08120000 

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  year = {2008},
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Abstract

We are currently in the throes of a potentially huge paradigm shift in physics. Motivated by recent developments in string theory and the discovery of the so-called \'string landscape\', physicists are beginning to question the uniqueness of fundamental theories of physics and the methods by which such theories might be understsood and investigated. In this colloquium, I will give a non-technical introduction to the nature of this paradigm shift and how it developed. I will also discuss some of the questions to which it has led, and the nature of the controversies it has spawned.

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