DREAM MANIFESTO - QUANTUM MECHANICS / IS STRING THEORY PREDICTIVE ?

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Links to Quantum Mechanics

General

• The Modern Revolution in Physics - an online textbook
• J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson: A history of quantum mechanics
• Introduction to Quantum Theory at Quantiki
• Quantum Physics Made Relatively Simple: three video lectures by Hans Bethe
• H is for h-bar

Course material

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Chemistry. See 5.61, 5.73, and 5.74
• MIT OpenCourseWare: Physics. See 8.04, 8.05, and 8.06
• 5½ Examples in Quantum Mechanics
• Imperial College Quantum Mechanics Course to Download
• Spark Notes - Quantum Physics
• Doron Cohen: Lecture notes in Quantum Mechanics (comprehensive, with advanced topics)
• Quantum Physics Online : interactive introduction to quantum mechanics (RS applets)
• Experiments to the foundations of quantum physics with single photons

FAQs

• Many-worlds or relative-state interpretation
• Measurement in Quantum mechanics

Media

• Everything you wanted to know about the quantum world — archive of articles from New Scientist magazine.
• Quantum Physics Research from Science Daily
• "Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory". The New York Times. December 27, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/science/27eins.html?ex=1293339600&en=caf5d835203c3500&ei=5090.

Philosophy

• Quantum Mechanics entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Jenann Ismael
• David Mermin on the future directions of physics

Manifesto about Quantum Mechanics

This science was revealed to the world in 1929, «after the big U.S. financial crisis», with the invention of teleradio, television and later in 1969 of internet . In Astronomy was the discovery of Pluto in 1930 with it strange circumnavigation around the sun observed by new and more powerful telescopes which give the direction to analyse other ways to explain what is surrounding us with Quantum Mechanics, later in 1984 a new vision of space and time was observed by the previsions of a new theory called String Theory.

Discover now more informations about the predictions of the String Theory with the following numeric report made on WEB 2.0 - JPFG 2009

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Pictures courtesy - The.Elegant.Universe - Brian Greene

String theory

is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum theory of gravity. The strings of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces too.

Since its birth as the dual resonance model which described the strongly interacting hadrons as strings, the term string theory has changed to include any of a group of related superstring theories which unite them. One shared property of all these theories is the holographic principle. String theory itself comes in many different formulations, each one with a different mathematical structure, and each best describing different physical circumstances. But the principles shared by these approaches, their mutual logical consistency, and the fact that some of them easily include the standard model of particle physics, has led many physicists to believe that the theory is the correct fundamental description of nature. In particular, string theory is the first candidate for the theory of everything, a way to describe all the known natural forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions) and matter (quarks and leptons) in a mathematically complete system.

Many detractors criticize string theory because it has not yet provided quantitative experimental predictions. Like any other quantum theory of gravity, it is widely believed that testing the theory directly by experiment would require prohibitively expensive feats of engineering. Whether there are stringent indirect tests of the theory is not yet known.

String theory is of interest to many physicists because it requires new mathematical and physical ideas to mesh together its very different mathematical formulations. One of the most inclusive of these is the 11-dimensional M-theory, and in the M-theory way of thinking, string theory requires spacetime to have eleven dimensions,^[1] as opposed to the usual three space and one time. The original string theories from the 1980s describe special cases of M-theory where the eleventh dimension is a very small circle or a line, and if these formulations are considered as fundamental, then string theory requires ten dimensions. But the theory also describes universes like ours, with four observable spacetime dimensions, as well as universes with up to 10 flat space dimensions, and also cases where the position in some of the dimensions is not described by a real number, but by completely different type of mathematical quantity. So the notion of space-time dimension is not a fixed thing in string theory: it is best thought of as different in different circumstances.

String theories include objects more general than strings, called branes. The word brane, derived from "membrane", refers to a variety of interrelated objects, such as D-branes, black p-branes and Neveu-Schwarz 5-branes. These are extended objects that are charged sources for differential form generalizations of the vector potential electromagnetic field. These objects are related to one-another by a variety of dualities. Black hole-like black p-branes are identified with D-branes, which are endpoints for strings, and this identification is called Gauge-gravity duality. Research on this equivalence has led to new insights on quantum chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of the strong nuclear force.

Links to String Theory

• Superstring Theory Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Schwarz, Patricia (1998). "The Official String Theory Web Site". http://superstringtheory.com/. Retrieved on December 16 2005.
• WGBH Educational Foundation (2003). "The Elegant Universe". PBS Online, NOVA. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – A Three-Hour Miniseries with Brian Greene by NOVA (original PBS Broadcast Dates: October 28, 8-10 p.m. and November 4, 8-9 p.m., 2003). Various images, texts, videos and animations explaining string theory.
• Troost, Jan (2002). "Beyond String Theory". Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Theoretical Physics (TENA). http://tena4.vub.ac.be/beyondstringtheory/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – An ongoing project by a string physicist, working for the French CNRS.
• Dialogue on the Foundations of String Theory at MathPages
• Pierre, John M. (1999). "Superstrings! String Theory Home Page". http://www.sukidog.com/jpierre/strings/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – Online tutorial.
• Motl, Luboš; Screiber, Urs. "SCI.physics. STRINGS newsgroup". Harvard High Energy Theory Group. http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~sps/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – A moderated newsgroup for discussion of string theory (a theory of quantum gravity and unification of forces) and related fields of high-energy physics.
• Schwarz, John H. (2000). "Introduction to Superstring Theory". arXiv.org e-Print archive. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0008017. Retrieved on December 22 2005. – Four lectures, presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, in June 2000, and addressed to an audience of graduate students in experimental high energy physics, survey basic concepts in string theory.
• Witten, Edward (1998). "Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics". Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/witten/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – Slides and audio from an Ed Witten lecture where he introduces string theory and discusses its challenges.
• Kibble, Tom (2004). "Cosmic strings reborn?". arXiv.org e-Print archive. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410073/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – Invited Lecture at COSLAB 2004, held at Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom, from 10 to 17 September 2004.
• Marolf, Don (2004). "Resource Letter NSST-1: The Nature and Status of String Theory". arXiv.org e-Print archive. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311044/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – A guide to the string theory literature.
• Ajay, Shakeeb, Wieland et al. (2004). "The nth dimension". http://thenthdimension.com/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – A comprehensive compilation of materials concerning string theory. Created by an international team of students.
• Woit, Peter (2002). "Is string theory even wrong?". American Scientist. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/18638/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – A criticism of string theory.
• Woit, Peter (2004). "Not Even Wrong". Columbia University Mathematics Department. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/. Retrieved on December 16 2005. – A blog critical of string theory.
• Veneziano, Gabriele (May 2004), "The Myth of the Beginning of Time", Scientific American, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=00042F0D-1A0E-1085-94F483414B7F0000
• McKie, Robin (2006-10-09), "Setback as string theory of the universe is de-bunked" (^{[dead link]} – ^{Scholar search}), The Hindu, http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200610091240.htm
• Harris, Richard (2006-11-07). "Short of 'All,' String Theorists Accused of Nothing". National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6377252. Retrieved on 2007-03-05.
• A website dedicated to creative writing inspired by string theory.
• George Gardner (2007-01-24). "Theory of everything put to the test". tech.blorge.com. (Web link). Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
• Minkel, J. R. (2006-03-02), "A Prediction from String Theory, with Strings Attached", Scientific American, http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa003&articleId=1475A684-E7F2-99DF-355B95296BE6031C
• Chalmers, Matthew (2007-09-03). "Stringscape". Physics World. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/30940. Retrieved on September 6 2007. — An up-to-date and thorough review of string theory in a popular way.
• Smolin, Lee. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next (2006), Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-55105-7.
• Woit, Peter. Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory & the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics, 2006. ISBN 0-224-07605-1 (Jonathan Cape), ISBN 0-465-09275-6 (Basic Books)

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