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191 - String Theory
Guests: Alexander Westphal Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Alexander Grote
String Theory is currently one of the most important theories in fundamental physics, with applications to a variety of subfields including black holes and cosmology, nuclear physics others. This episode is an introduction to the core ideas of the field, as well as to some of its applications. Our guest is Alexander Westphal of Germany’s particle physics lab DESY. He does a wonderful job of introducing the very abstract topic in a way that could be understood by non-physicists, at least to some degree.
Once again I forgot to mention those of you (listeners) who suggested questions, so I am doing it here: Stefan Hacker, Brent Knickerbocker, Christopher Schuster and David Liaromatis.
Introduction of Alexander Westphal and overview of the standard model 00:03:15
Desy | Standard Model | Quantum field theory | Special relativity | Quantum chromodynamics | Quantum electrodynamics | Electroweak interaction
Limits of the standard model/ Gravity 00:09:05
Radiative corrections | Pertubation Theory | Uncertainty priciple | Quantum fluctuations | General relativity | Quantum gravity
Origin of string theory 00:15:45
Particle zoo | Strong interaction | Gauge theories | Quantum chromodynamics | Illustration of string (theory) vibration
Transtition to string theory 00:20:35
Spin | Graviton | Kaluza-Klein Theory | Manifold | Cakabi-Yau Manifold | GUT | Holography | Black hole | Neutron star | Entropy | Spacetime | Spacetime duality | bosonic string theory | super string theory | M-theory | AdS/CFT correspondance | Soliton | cosmology inflation | cosmology inflation illustration | Scalar field theory | Planck scale
Research in string theory today 02:03:15
Research of Alexander Westphal
Outro 02:40:15
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By Markus Voelter, Nora Ludewig
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Guests: Alexander Westphal Host: Markus Voelter Shownoter: Alexander Grote
String Theory is currently one of the most important theories in fundamental physics, with applications to a variety of subfields including black holes and cosmology, nuclear physics others. This episode is an introduction to the core ideas of the field, as well as to some of its applications. Our guest is Alexander Westphal of Germany’s particle physics lab DESY. He does a wonderful job of introducing the very abstract topic in a way that could be understood by non-physicists, at least to some degree.
Once again I forgot to mention those of you (listeners) who suggested questions, so I am doing it here: Stefan Hacker, Brent Knickerbocker, Christopher Schuster and David Liaromatis.
Introduction of Alexander Westphal and overview of the standard model 00:03:15
Desy | Standard Model | Quantum field theory | Special relativity | Quantum chromodynamics | Quantum electrodynamics | Electroweak interaction
Limits of the standard model/ Gravity 00:09:05
Radiative corrections | Pertubation Theory | Uncertainty priciple | Quantum fluctuations | General relativity | Quantum gravity
Origin of string theory 00:15:45
Particle zoo | Strong interaction | Gauge theories | Quantum chromodynamics | Illustration of string (theory) vibration
Transtition to string theory 00:20:35
Spin | Graviton | Kaluza-Klein Theory | Manifold | Cakabi-Yau Manifold | GUT | Holography | Black hole | Neutron star | Entropy | Spacetime | Spacetime duality | bosonic string theory | super string theory | M-theory | AdS/CFT correspondance | Soliton | cosmology inflation | cosmology inflation illustration | Scalar field theory | Planck scale
Research in string theory today 02:03:15
Research of Alexander Westphal
Outro 02:40:15
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