Basics Of String Theory
Theories Of String Theory
Timeline Of String Theory
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When the theory was originally created, strings were thought to have this amount of basic interactions.

What is 5?

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This theory which says string theory has 26 dimensions.

What is Bosonic String Theory?

100

This person was the first to propose of fifth dimension to the theory of gravity in 1914.

Who is Gunnar Nordström?

200

At a very basic level, string theory is a theory trying to combine these 2 main types of physics.

What are quantum physics and general relativity?

200

This theory says that string theory has 10 dimensions.

What is Superstring Theory?

200

String theory was first studied in the late 1960s, being a theory of hadrons, which are subatomic particles that are affected by this fundamental force.

What is strong nuclear force?

300

String theory also tries to unify these, which include electromagnetic, strong nuclear, weak nuclear, and gravity.

What are the 4 fundamental forces?

300

This theory in which string theory has 11 dimensions.

What is M-Theory?

300

In 1969, "strings" were first proposed as a way to describe space and time by Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, and this scientist.

Who is Leonard Susskind?

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This prediction of superstring theory that states that 1 fermion exists for every boson, and 1 boson exists for every fermion.

What is supersymmetry?

400

Superstring theory was developed from this earlier theory.

What is Bosonic String Theory?

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In 1974, was proved to be a theory of gravity, and was therefore abandoned in favor of this theory, which is the correct theory of hadrons.

What is quantum chromodynamics?

500

String theory says that there are more dimensions, but they are just this, so we can never see them.

What is compactified?

500

M-theory was proposed in the mid-1990s being a mix of 5 different variations of this theory and the theory of supergravity.

What is Superstring Theory?

500

In 1995, Edward Witten did this to propose the new theory of M-Theory.

What is united all of the 5 theories that existed at that time?