弦理论

by Steven S. Gubser, 斯蒂文·S.古布泽

弦论是一个谜。它是所谓的万有理论（the theory of everything）。但它还没有得到实验的验证。
　　它是如此的深奥。在弦论里到处是额外维度，量子涨落和黑洞。
　　弦论是一个谜，它的参与者们承认他们并不理解这个理论。但一个接一个的计算却带来了出人意料的漂亮的有关联的结果。
　　弦论是一个谜。它把很多天才从其他迷人的领域吸引过来，同时，它还有响亮的反对者

240 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2015

About the author

Steven Scott Gubser (May 4, 1972 – August 3, 2019) was a professor of physics at Princeton University.

His research focused on theoretical particle physics, especially string theory, and the AdS/CFT correspondence. He was a widely cited scholar in these and other related areas.

Gubser did foundational work in the AdS/CFT correspondence as a graduate student. In particular, his 1998 paper Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory with his advisor Igor Klebanov and another Princeton physics professor Alexander Markovich Polyakov, made a precise statement of the AdS/CFT duality. It is one of the all-time top cited papers in theoretical high-energy physics, and is commonly known, along with Edward Witten's 1998 work Anti De Sitter Space and Holography, as the GKPW dictionary. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1998 from Princeton, Gubser became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University before taking a position as an assistant professor at Princeton. In 2001, he moved to the California Institute of Technology but returned to Princeton in 2002.

Reviews

[Hqwxyz · Rating 3 out of 5]

没有足够数学、物理知识，无法理解弦论的精彩，可惜了核心的第五、第六章看不懂。