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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 01:44:56 2020 No.11565802 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11566505 >>11566582

https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9610043

This paper can hardly be reviewed: it is the best physics paper of all time, heck, it's possibly the greatest text produced by humans in the entire history of civilization. Reading it is like looking directly at the sun, first you go blind, then you go mad, then you feel that your life has lost all meaning, because nothing can ever be so beautiful again.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 03:41:51 No.11566047 Report

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god tier

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 06:46:49 No.11566505 Report

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>>11565802
k explain why it's so great and not retarded.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 06:56:08 No.11566517 Report

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>>11566505
Before this paper, every method of calculating in physics was limited in principle by some approximation, of one kind or another. If you were doing field theory, your calculation didn't take into account gravity. If you were doing stirng theory, you were perturbative, and you couldn't describe black hole formation well.

This paper has no such barrier. It defines how to calculate EVERYTHING in a flat M-theory. Everything. No approximations. This was the first time this had ever been done for any model in physics which included gravity.

The extension and analysis of this paper, and incorporations of other insights, led directly to AdS/CFT, with Maldacena's famous work in 1997, and WItten's, and Gubser, Klebanov, Polyakov, and all the rest. But this was the first major shock of the second superstring revolution, the first completely nonperturbative calculation method. This paper was the first time a real theory of everything, and I mean a completely computable theory of everything in every domain, had ever been written down.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 07:00:37 No.11566530 Report

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There is an important antecedant to BFSS in earlier work in string triangulation models, which suggested a similar mathematical construction. But this was in the late 80s, and there was no argument that such a calculation method would be a complete description of the physics. The BFSS paper came with a full realization of holographic principle, and the reason that a full accounting of a black hole, any black hole, would account for everything else, so it was surely including all the physics.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 07:01:44 No.11566533 Report

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It came from four middle aged string theorists who had been working on related ideas for decades. It did NOT come from a young genius, or the most famous names (although they became famous names subsequently). Given this advance, and the related AdS/CFT program, we have an in-principle method of generating theories of everything for cold spaces. This is unbelievable, because it solves the problem of physics COMPLETELY in cold space times. To say that nobody saw this coming is an understatement, I thought it would take a century to do, in 1995, when it was already being finished.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 07:24:47 No.11566582 Report

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>>11565802
Really best and truly based thread in the recent /sci/, OP.

I hope there will not be any brainlets who say 'ooga bonga string theory bad! Not testable prediction! muh falsifiability! it's too theoretical and too mathematical!' in this thread.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 09:07:56 No.11566749 Report

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bump

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 15:23:09 No.11567440 Report

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ooga bonga string theory bad! Not testable prediction! muh falsifiability! it's too theoretical and too mathematical!

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 15:44:03 No.11567494 Report

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>>11566533
Be that as it may, I don't see how one can get so excited of a 25yo paper - I'm not sure what came of it.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2020 16:17:36 No.11567564 Report

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>>11567440
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