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Modern String Theory Confronts Particle Physics and Black Holes
Published on May 22, 20172350 Views
String theory, as the prime candidate for quantum unification of particle physics and gravity, sheds light on important fundamental questions of theoretical physics such as the microscopic structure o
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Modern String Theory Confronts Particle Physics & Black Holes00:00
Quests to uncover underlying principles of fundamental interactions02:09
Outline03:20
I. Theory of Elementary Particles based on Quantum Field Theory05:03
Standard Model (of electro-weak and strong interactions)05:37
II. Gravity as classical theory: Einstein Theory of Gravity07:22
Einstein Theory of Gravity is relevant for cosmological questions of the Early Universe08:07
Einstein’s Theory predicts Black Holes08:42
Gravity as Quantum Field Theory10:39
Quark12:09
Graviton12:58
Quantum interactions14:03
Things seems to be in place15:52
Demand that extra dimensions17:27
The role of extra dimensions18:51
D(irichlet)-branes20:10
II. Dual D-brane interpretation21:57
I. D-branes & Particle Physics23:36
D-branes25:03
Standard Model from D-branes26:19
Standard Models w/ Intersecting D-branes28:18
F-theory?30:17
F-theory compactification - 132:52
F-theory compactification - 235:20
F-theory -Motivation37:03
Past focus on F-theory with SU(5) Grand Unification38:51
Standard Model40:09
Recent efforts41:21
II. String Theory Insights into Black Holes42:33
D-branes & Black Holes44:07
D-branes as gravitational objects45:16
Approach explains microscopic origin of entropy47:43
Recent progress49:34
Concluding remarks51:42