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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Super-Strings
- Message-ID: <106454@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:17:53 GMT
- References: <74300@cup.portal.com> <1k09cpINNsg7@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: brahm@cco.caltech.edu (David E. Brahm)
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- In article <1k09cpINNsg7@gap.caltech.edu>, brahm@cco (David E. Brahm) writes:
- >One could, and people do ("super-membrane theory"),
-
- For some reason, the membrane is always a p-dimensional object. They
- are called p-branes for short. This is not a joke.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
-