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- From: ucacgcj@ucl.ac.uk (Gordon C Joly)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Super-Strings
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.180038.15123@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:00:38 GMT
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- In article <25441@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
- >[...]There is so much powerful mathematics associated with
- >Riemann surfaces that it is natural to want to use it... and this is
- >what people have done (greatly pushing forward the subject in the
- >process). Of course, it's not clear whether Nature finds this mathematics
- >as tempting as we do.
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- It is also not clear whether spacetime is "foam" or not (that is to
- say has a Winding number of one).
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- There is an assumption that we live in a (continuously) differential
- manifold, which may not be the case.
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- Gordon.
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