Friday, November 8, 2002, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Prof. I. Antoniadis, CERN
Abstract:
A theory with such a mathematical beauty cannot be wrong: this was
one of the main arguments in favor of string theory, which unifies
all known physical theories of fundamental interactions in a single
coherent description of the universe. But no one has ever observed
strings, not even indirectly, neither the space of extra dimensions
where they live. However, there are good reasons to believe that the
``hidden" dimensions of string theory may be much larger than what
we thought in the past and they become within experimental reach in
the near future, together with the strings themselves. In my talk, I
will give an elementary introduction of this framework and describe
the main experimental predictions.