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The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, supermembranes and M-theory (Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation)
Author(s): M.J Duff (Author)
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: January 1, 1999
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 513 pages
- ASIN: B00SC8D9GE
- ISBN-13: 9781482268737
Book Description
A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose v