Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies (Jan 2018)

String Theory: Physics or Metaphysics?

  • Gabriele Veneziano

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 13

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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 falsified or whether it should be considered as mere metaphysics.

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