Colloquia 2005
A
layman's guide to M-theory
Prof.
Michael Duff
Imperial College London
Date
4-5
p.m., Thursday, 8 December, 2005
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Location
School of Physics
Common Room
Room 64 Old Main Building
The University of New South Wales
Abstract
Current attempts to find a unified theory that would reconcile Einstein's
General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, and explain all known physical
phenomena, invoke the Kaluza-Klein idea of extra spacetime dimensions.
The best candidate is M-theory, which lives in eleven dimensions, the
maximum allowed by supersymmetry of the elementary particles. We give
a non-technical account.
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