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From Strings to Mirrors

2020-03-01
By: Tim McMahon
On: March 1, 2020
In: 2020, Ursula Whitcher
Tagged: Higgs boson, mirror symmetry, string theory, T-duality
With: 0 Comments

From Strings to Mirrors To tell you where mirror symmetry came from, I have to tell you about string theory. And to do that, I have to tell you why you should care about string theory in the first place. That story starts with an old question: what is theRead More →

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