A Critique of Pure String Theory: Heterodox Opinions of Diverse Dimensions
| dc.creator | Banks, T. | |
| dc.date | 2003-06-09 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:15:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:15:20Z | |
| dc.description | I present a point of view about what M Theory is and how it is related to the real world, which departs in certain crucial respects from conventional wisdom. I argue against the possibility of a background independent formulation of the theory, or of a Poincare invariant, Supersymmetry violating vacuum state. A fundamental assumption is black hole dominance of high energy physics. Much of this paper is a compilation of things I have said elsewhere. I review a crude argument for the critical exponent connecting the gravitino mass and the cosmological constant, and propose a framework for finding a quantum theory of de Sitter space. | |
| dc.description | harvmac, 82 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306074 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306074 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51960 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | A Critique of Pure String Theory: Heterodox Opinions of Diverse Dimensions | |
| dc.type | text |