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Old Ideas for New Physicists III: String Theory Parameters are NOT Vacuum Expectation Values

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arxiv 2501.17697 v1 pith:I5LAGUSX submitted 2025-01-29 hep-th gr-qc

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I review, for the benefit of younger physicists, arguments proposed at the beginning of the 21st century, which show that it is misleading to think of the parameters in string theory models of quantum gravity as vacuum expectation values of fields.

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