String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics?
I will give arguments for why the enormous progress made during the last century on understanding elementary particles and their fundamental interactions suggests strings as the truly elementary constituents of Nature. I will then address the issue of whether the string paradigm can in principle be...
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Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente
2018-01-01
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| author | Gabriele Veneziano |
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| description | I will give arguments for why the enormous progress made during the last century on understanding elementary particles and their fundamental interactions suggests strings as the truly elementary constituents of Nature. I will then address the issue of whether the string paradigm can in principle be falsified or whether it should be considered as mere metaphysics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4fdc96b667534405a36b00ae424572b82022-12-21T20:38:24ZengAssociazione Culturale Humana.MenteHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies1972-12932018-01-01413String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics?Gabriele Veneziano0Collège de France, Paris; Theory Division – CERN, Geneva, CH.I will give arguments for why the enormous progress made during the last century on understanding elementary particles and their fundamental interactions suggests strings as the truly elementary constituents of Nature. I will then address the issue of whether the string paradigm can in principle be falsified or whether it should be considered as mere metaphysics.http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/227elementary particlesstring theorymetaphysics of physics |
| spellingShingle | Gabriele Veneziano String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics? Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies elementary particles string theory metaphysics of physics |
| title | String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics? |
| title_full | String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics? |
| title_fullStr | String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics? |
| title_full_unstemmed | String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics? |
| title_short | String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics? |
| title_sort | string theory physics or metaphysics |
| topic | elementary particles string theory metaphysics of physics |
| url | http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/227 |
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