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- From: sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Super-Strings
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 10:14 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1993Jan24.015612.4614@scorch.apana.org.au>, adawal@scorch.apana.org.au (Adam Walsh) writes...
- >Pardon My ignorance but what is a Super String?
-
- Strings are supposed to be the fundamental objects in the
- Universe, microscopic 1-dimensional loops of stuff which look like
- zero-dimensional point objects at suffiently poor resolution.
- Superstrings are strings with a Supersymmetric Lagrangian. I hope
- that this helps. :-)
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
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