And one of their most respected persons. Polchinski was an early pioneer of string theory, the mathematical apparatus picturing the basic particles of matter and force as supertiny wriggling ...

Can you explain - give us a sense of the work that Polchinski was known for in physics, in string theory. CARROLL: So string theory is a simple idea. Instead of little particles like electrons and ...

Around 1995, Polchinski made a far-reaching discovery that permeates string theory and related areas of physics. It started with a technical observation. He noticed that strings — the one-dimensional ...

with insights spearheaded in the mid-1990s by Joe Polchinski, into numbers so large that they’ve never been named. Against this embarrassment of riches, string theory offered no directive ...

It grew out of the synergy between Bousso's background in quantum gravity and inflationary cosmology and Polchinski's background in string theory. Bousso is assistant professor of physics at the ...

In his role of representing Polchinski, Gross strongly opposes the idea that string theorists work on string theory for sociological reasons. Rovelli feels that the defensive tone of the talks at ...

Polchinski concludes that, considering how far away we are from the exceptionally fine grain of nature’s fundamental distance scale, we should count ourselves lucky: “String theory exists ...

"We never knew whether it was a bug or a feature," says Polchinski. In his latest work, Sachdev shows that the string theory version of the FFL model also violates the third law of thermodynamics ...

Can you explain - give us a sense of the work that Polchinski was known for in physics, in string theory. CARROLL: So string theory is a simple idea. Instead of little particles like electrons and ...

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