Is String Theory Correct (and when will it be proven?) - Sixty Symbols @sixtysymbols
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Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ed Copeland and Tony Padilla answer a viewer question about the rights/wrongs of String Theory and its proof ... More links and info below ↓ ↓ ↓

Ed and Tony are physicists at The University of Nottingham and Sixty Symbols stalwarts.

More from this Q and A session: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNLpmQg4SSZ6tMsyDldilnA

Ed: nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/ed.copeland
Tony: nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/antonio.padilla

Tony makes the case for string theory in an earlier video: youtu.be/Q8ccXzM3x8A
Ed discusses Cosmic Superstrings: youtu.be/03vIkZR2hNY

More Tony videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBPJmX64Jay51cdZTKMz4ACs
More Ed videos: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUY9vudNKBNtF1y-sneLuyCTE-Mda561

Paper referred to by Tony is Uniqueness Criteria for the Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude: arxiv.org/abs/2408.03362

Ed co-authored paper - Percolating cosmic string networks from kination: journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.083537

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