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Avinash Avinash is offline
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Default Need of String theory - 08-14-2003, 01:19 AM

Relativistic quantum field theory works very well to describe the observed behaviours and properties of elementary particles. But the theory works well only when gravity is so weak that it can be neglected.

Particle theory works only when we pretend gravity doesn't exist.

General relativity works only when we assume that that quantum mechanics is not needed in our description of Nature.

String theory is believed to close this gap.
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