Strings, Branes and Cosmology: What can we hope to learn?
Abstract
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This article briefly summarizes the motivations for -- and recent progress in -- searching for cosmological configurations within string theory, with a focus on how much we might reasonably hope to learn about fundamental physics from precision cosmological measurements.
Some references added; Invited contribution to the 40th Rencontres de Moriond, La Thuile, March 2006. (LaTeX 10 pages)
Some references added; Invited contribution to the 40th Rencontres de Moriond, La Thuile, March 2006. (LaTeX 10 pages)