What Is String Theory? (And What Was It Originally?)

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What is string theory? What was it initially and how did we get where we are today? Content: 0:00 Intro - What is String Theory? 1:16 String Theory without Strings 3:41 Supersymmetric Quantum Gravity 6:49 A Theory of Everything 11:14 Lost in the Landscape, Reframed as Framework Sources and Influences: [1] Baggott, Jim (2013) „Farewell to Reality“ How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth [2] Conlon, Joseph (2015) „Why String Theory?“ [3] Gubser, Steven S. (2010) „The Little Book of String Theory“ [4] Hawking, Stephen (2015) „The Illustrated Brief History Of Time“ [5] Kragh, Helge (2015) „Higher Speculations“ Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology [6] Mohaupt, Thomas (2022) „A Short Introduction to String Theory“ [7] Rickles, Dean (2016) „A Brief History of String Theory“ From Dual Models to M-Theory [8] Siegel, Ethan (2016) „What Every Layperson Should KNow About String Theory“ https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-every-layperson-should-know-about-string-theory/ [9] Smolin, Lee (2009) „Die Zukunft der Physik“ Probleme der String Theorie und wie es weitergeht {Engl.: „The Trouble with Physics“} [10] Vafa, Cumrun (2021) „Das Universum in Rätseln“ {Engl.: „Puzzles to Unravel the Universe“} [11] Weinberg, Steven (1993) „Dreams Of A Final Theory“ The Saerch For The Fundamental Laws Of Nature [12] Witten, Edward (2015) „What every physicist should know about string theory“ Physics Today 68 (11), 38–43 [13] Woit, Peter (2007) „Not Even Wrong“ The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_interaction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon#Tachyons_in_string_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersymmetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory_landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Ramond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Schwarz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Veneziano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Green_(physicist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Neveu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Witten