String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics?

I will give arguments for why the enormous progress made during the last century on understanding elementary particles and their fundamental interactions suggests strings as the truly elementary constituents of Nature. I will then address the issue of whether the string paradigm can in principle be...

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Main Author: Gabriele Veneziano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente 2018-01-01
Series:Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
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Online Access:http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/227