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superstring

NOUN
  1. a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time

How To Use superstring In A Sentence

  • However, particle physicists (such as superstring theorists) tended to view black holes as being just another quantum state. Singularities and Black Holes
  • There still remain unproven conjectures such as the finiteness and consistency of any superstring theory, past the first three terms of a certain approximation scheme.
  • In fact, many superstring theorists who could not get faculty jobs went to Wall Street (where they were incorrectly called "rocket scientists"). This may mean leaving the field.
  • We still don't know the fundamental M theory, but a lot has been learned about the eleven-dimensional M theory and how it relates to superstrings in ten spacetime dimensions.
  • Few physicists say they are looking for ways to falsify superstring theory.
  • That's cartoon physics for you, but it's also a lot like the very serious business of superstring theory.
  • In superstring theory, particles are not treated as particles at all but as oscillations in one-dimensional entities called strings.
  • And then you will ask what happens if you compactify one of those dimensions on a circle, and you’ll see that the membranes become superstrings. Why 10 or 11?
  • A: Well, a superstring -- like a very, very thin rubber band -- is an object with only one dimension, the dimension that extends along its own length. A Conversation with Brian Greene
  • Yet particle theories like Grand Unified Theories and superstring theory predict magnetic monopoles should exist.
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